*You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.* [*Elizabeth Gilbert*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11679.Elizabeth_Gilbert?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Happy birthday, Elizabeth Gilbert! The author of Eat, Pray, Love discovered her love of reading and writing while growing up on a small Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her family did not own a television or a record player, so Gilbert and her sister entertained themselves with books and plays.