When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — 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 Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd… — Elizabeth Berg 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
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed… — 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 Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — 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 fresh flowers… — Elizabeth Berg 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, and you… — Elizabeth Berg 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 magazine, I… — Elizabeth Berg 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 to someone… — 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 to appreciate… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
