“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a… — 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. — 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
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 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
“...what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of… — Elizabeth Berg 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 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
“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
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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 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
“Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.” — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
“When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. — 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
