She is fascinated and enchanted

by what she is reading.

She often questions why she is reading in the first place.

She

often wonders what the author's intention is when she is reading.

She

becomes sad and melancholic when she reads a wonderful story.

Elizabeth Gilbert sometimes subconsciously fears copying other authors.

Elizabeth

Gilbert often agrees with book recommendations she receives.

Elizabeth

Gilbert finds it helpful to read novels similar to the one she is writing at

the time.

Elizabeth

Gilbert likes writing, but doesn’t really like reading

from

a blood relative

from

the same author

similar

different

Not

enough people are creating truly transcendent art.

Art has become too much of a business commodity.

Too

many people feel compelled to create art.

There

are not enough educational institutions that teach art.

The

drive to search for food and drink

The desire to improve things and make them beautiful

The

desire to transport ourselves to another world

Elizabeth

Gilbert’s grandmother enjoyed making handicrafts.

Elizabeth

Gilbert’s grandmother was a trained artist.

People are naturally creative and often make things that are

unnecessarily beautiful.

Her

grandmother could have torn something apart.

Her grandmother could have made something quickly and carelessly.

Her

grandmother could have used a machine to make quilts.

Her

grandmother could have planned and constructed something carefully.

The

differing level of interest in the arts in pre-industrial versus modern periods

The communal spirit of

pre-industrial societies as opposed to individualism in modern ones

The different education levels of people in pre-industrial

versus modern eras

The

vastly improved wealth of modern nations as opposed to the poverty of

pre-industrial nations

She

feels that it is monotonous and boring.

She

thinks artists who create this type of art feel more pain and suffering

themselves.

She thinks it tells an incomplete story about the human experience.

She

feels that this type of art has been overdone and rendered into a cliché.