The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales… — Elizabeth Berg Nothing Copy Share Image
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry… — Elizabeth Berg Cry Copy Share Image
“Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what… — Elizabeth Berg Human beings Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms… — Elizabeth Berg Flower Copy Share Image
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. — Elizabeth Berg Communication Copy Share Image
“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“Steven sits back in the booth, crosses his arms. “My wife was cremated.” “Your wife…?” “She died when Maddy was two weeks… — Elizabeth Berg Marriage Copy Share Image
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the… — Elizabeth Berg Difficulties Copy Share Image
“The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard… — Elizabeth Berg Adversity Copy Share Image
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow. He says he’d read that grief… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Brain Copy Share Image
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one… — Elizabeth Berg Art Copy Share Image
“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am… — Elizabeth Berg Grateful Copy Share Image
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the… — Elizabeth Berg Dating Copy Share Image
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I… — Elizabeth Berg Experience Copy Share Image
“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what… — Elizabeth Berg Grandmother Copy Share Image
“I am so often struck by what we do not do, all of us. And I am also, now, so acutely aware… — Elizabeth Berg Passage of time Copy Share Image
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
“By now I was feeling the shame but also defiance. Like here, I'm carrying the banner for all of you who cut… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
