Elizabeth Berg

“Is war a sin?”

— Elizabeth Berg

“Men were ever men.”

— Elizabeth Berg

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

“For what reason would I lie to one I so love?”

— Elizabeth Berg

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

— Elizabeth Berg

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

— Elizabeth Berg

“For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.”

— Elizabeth Berg

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't have a medicine cabinet.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Some people have no more burden than an avocado going bad.”

— Elizabeth Berg

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

“The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further”

— Elizabeth Berg

“Funny how an animal can hurt your feelings when you’re all alone.”

— Elizabeth Berg

I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

— Elizabeth Berg

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

— Elizabeth Berg

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we’re born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.”

— Elizabeth Berg

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own…

— Elizabeth Berg

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I once read that Martha Stewart never wears a bathrobe. Not that I like Martha Stewart, nobody likes Martha Stewart, I don’t…

— Elizabeth Berg

Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about…

— Elizabeth Berg

“...and there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat.…

— Elizabeth Berg

I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I am living on a planet where the silk dresses of Renaissance women rustled, where people died in plagues, where Mozart sat…

— Elizabeth Berg

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and…

— Elizabeth Berg

As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved.…

— Elizabeth Berg

“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

“But finally my own version of God came to me in a dream, complete with a name: Corambe. He was a warm…

— Elizabeth Berg

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

— Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes you know before you know.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

— Elizabeth Berg

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

— Elizabeth Berg