How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything. — Elizabeth Berg Felt Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Been Copy Share Image
The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! — Elizabeth Berg Funny Copy Share Image
“Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.” — Elizabeth Berg Choice Copy Share Image
“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.” — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. — Elizabeth Berg Anything Copy Share Image
“You know I love you, but you are one of the most exasperating people I have ever met.” — Elizabeth Berg Exasperating Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Afraid 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… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me. I'm just going to grab… — Elizabeth Berg Bull Copy Share Image
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 Connections Copy Share Image
My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey… — Elizabeth Berg Cake 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 Family Copy Share Image
“Come over here and light me a cigarette," she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then… — Elizabeth Berg Inhale Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have… — Elizabeth Berg Awful Copy Share Image
You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing… — Elizabeth Berg Checks Copy Share Image
“One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see… — Elizabeth Berg Appreciation Copy Share Image
“If you see a sunset and try to describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, 'Boy, I… — Elizabeth Berg Last night Copy Share Image
“He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out… — Elizabeth Berg People Online Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure it was right to abandon myself to lighthearted banter, to allow someone to interfere with my being able to… — Elizabeth Berg Abandon Copy Share Image
She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All… — Elizabeth Berg Aprons Copy Share Image
“See, that’s what I do. I am the audience. I am the witness. I am the great appreciator, that’s what I do… — Elizabeth Berg Rocking chair Copy Share Image
Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without… — Elizabeth Berg Believe 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 Appreciation Copy Share Image
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. — Elizabeth Berg Childless 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 Artist Copy Share Image
“That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now” — Elizabeth Berg Matter of fact Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.” — Elizabeth Berg Acceptance Copy Share Image
“What mattered was that at the end, someone who loved her sat by her, saying, I see you. I” — Elizabeth Berg Loved Copy Share Image
“Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.” — Elizabeth Berg Good weather Copy Share Image
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book… — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg Character Copy Share Image
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. — Elizabeth Berg Alike Copy Share Image
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. — Elizabeth Berg Best Copy Share Image
“The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further” — Elizabeth Berg Learning Copy Share Image
“Funny how an animal can hurt your feelings when you’re all alone.” — Elizabeth Berg Animal Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
