“Isn’t life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn… — Elizabeth Berg Comedy Copy Share Image
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can’t help but make mistakes. The important thing is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Connections Copy Share Image
“Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me. I'm just going to grab… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“...what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of… — Elizabeth Berg Moments Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t exactly know why kids don’t like her. She’s good-looking enough. She has a sense of humor. She’s not dumb. She… — Elizabeth Berg Cruelty Copy Share Image
“Nona leans forward, "I had-a love." I nod. "You know how it was? It was like-a trees. Oak and elm." Her voice… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience,… — Elizabeth Berg Cancer Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity.… — Elizabeth Berg Creativity Copy Share Image
People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have… — Elizabeth Berg Family Copy Share Image
Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place… — Elizabeth Berg Earth Copy Share Image
It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's… — Elizabeth Berg Body Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost.… — Elizabeth Berg World war 2 Copy Share Image
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or… — Elizabeth Berg Apple pie Copy Share Image
Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part… — Elizabeth Berg Color Copy Share Image
“I like to do things in bed. I fold the laundry on the bed. Food tastes better to me when I'm under… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more… — Elizabeth Berg Mindful Copy Share Image
“Well, you just don't seem very...proud of me." He started to say that he was, but she interrupted him, saying, "Don't. It's… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
“What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come… — Elizabeth Berg Families Copy Share Image
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean,… — Elizabeth Berg Good man Copy Share Image
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Let others bring knowledge of anatomy and physiology, of pharmacology and statistics. What Lainey brings to her husband is faith. Hope. And… — Elizabeth Berg Anatomy and physiology Copy Share Image
“Already I’ve seen that when you’re pulled away from your normal routine, it’s as though air and sunlight come into your brain… — Elizabeth Berg Habits Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Accident Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her… — Elizabeth Berg Friendship Copy Share Image
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“the invisible dangers in a normal day wrought by overactive technology, fueled by greed. Soon we’ll have a whole world meeting for… — Elizabeth Berg Greed Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
