Writer Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

— Elizabeth Berg

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

— Elizabeth Berg

books are like confort food without the calories

— Elizabeth Berg

“Now there's some honest writing!”

— Elizabeth Berg

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.”

— Elizabeth Berg

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part…

— Elizabeth Berg

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider…

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

“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

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

“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

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

“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's…

— Elizabeth Berg

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and…

— Elizabeth Berg

“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive…

— Elizabeth Berg

If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe…

— Elizabeth Berg

You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never…

— Elizabeth Berg