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
“Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved.… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
“You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you’re happy. Fight against it… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know I love you, but you are one of the most exasperating people I have ever met.” — 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
I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don't think you've even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You have so much love to give! But I feel like you’re all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, ‘Where… — 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
