I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. — 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
“one of the hardest things in life is fessing up to what you want most, because if you do that, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory,… — Elizabeth Berg 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
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
“What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she’s not seen in such a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
“I am living on a planet where the silk dresses of Renaissance women rustled, where people died in plagues, where Mozart sat… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around… — 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
“I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never… — 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 Copy Share Image
Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they… — Elizabeth Berg 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 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
