If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. — Elizabeth Berg Anything 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
Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. — Elizabeth Berg About Copy Share Image
“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.” — Elizabeth Berg Appreciation Copy Share Image
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. — Elizabeth Berg Banana Copy Share Image
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? — Elizabeth Berg Anonymous 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
“hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means… — Elizabeth Berg Home Copy Share Image
“Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would… — Elizabeth Berg Lost Copy Share Image
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at… — Elizabeth Berg Awoke Copy Share Image
“Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they… — Elizabeth Berg Joke Copy Share Image
“I look in the mirror now, and even if I lost weight, there's just...Theres' nothing I can do. It's over. My bodyness.… — Elizabeth Berg Look Mirror Copy Share Image
“But losing weight for health reasons is a very dull prospect, doomed at the outset. Losing weight for romance, that’s altogether different.” — Elizabeth Berg Health Copy Share Image
“She goes back to bed, turns out the light, and can hear herself start to snore before she falls off into sleep.… — Elizabeth Berg Sleep Copy Share Image
“I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your… — Elizabeth Berg Psychology Copy Share Image
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Agents Copy Share Image
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was… — Elizabeth Berg Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He hesitates, then turns and starts up her walk. Gives her a friendly smile, to boot. He wishes she wouldn’t wear a… — Elizabeth Berg Friendship Copy Share Image
“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond… — Elizabeth Berg Loss Copy Share Image
“mostly, you only make a change, the balding chinese man tells me. I stare at him for a moment, uncomprehending, wondering if… — Elizabeth Berg Change 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
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
“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
“...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.” — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. — Elizabeth Berg Joyful Copy Share Image
I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg Empathy Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“I just don't know anymore. God! I'm in a bad mood! It's like walking around in an itchy coat.” — Elizabeth Berg Bad mood Copy Share Image
When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. — Elizabeth Berg Enough Copy Share Image
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am… — Elizabeth Berg Breeze Copy Share Image
“The mind has a way of protecting the heart, of turning one’s gaze in a certain direction, away from what it should… — Elizabeth Berg Human heart Copy Share Image
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at… — Elizabeth Berg Cards Copy Share Image
The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales… — Elizabeth Berg Nothing Copy Share Image
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry… — Elizabeth Berg Cry Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
“Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what… — Elizabeth Berg Human beings Copy Share Image
“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms… — Elizabeth Berg Flower Copy Share Image
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered… — Elizabeth Berg Cells Copy Share Image
