Elizabeth Berg Quotes

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• There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a…
• You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in…
• It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in…
• It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you…
• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his…
• 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 the ass for…
• As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
• My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
• As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as…
• There is incredible value in being of service to others.
• Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on…
• The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing…
• We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within…
• The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do…
• There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put…
• ...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at…
• You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own,…
• Sometimes you know before you know.
• There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at…
• I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So…

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