Elizabeth Berg

“Men were ever men.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“Is war a sin?”

— Elizabeth Berg

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't have a medicine cabinet.

— Elizabeth Berg

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

— Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes you know before you know.

— Elizabeth Berg

“For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.”

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Elizabeth Berg

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

— Elizabeth Berg

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

— Elizabeth Berg

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

— Elizabeth Berg

“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.”

— Elizabeth Berg

Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Elizabeth Berg

“I just don't know anymore. God! I'm in a bad mood! It's like walking around in an itchy coat.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can’t help but make mistakes. The important thing is…

— Elizabeth Berg

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart…

— Elizabeth Berg

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it…

— Elizabeth Berg

“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

“She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place…

— Elizabeth Berg

“She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all…

— Elizabeth Berg

“You are where I unlock myself, where I say that I have often put down my wooden spoon to stare out the…

— Elizabeth Berg

“The summer I was ten years old, there was a group of kids in my neighborhood who played together every night after…

— Elizabeth Berg

“There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock,…

— 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

Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof…

— 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

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

“I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Elizabeth Berg

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

— Elizabeth Berg

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

“For what reason would I lie to one I so love?”

— Elizabeth Berg

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

— Elizabeth Berg