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
“I know you feel bad about it, but here’s what I want you to do. Create an imaginary box. Into that box… — Elizabeth Berg Hurt feelings Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Anything Copy Share Image
“My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she… — Elizabeth Berg Open-house Copy Share Image
“People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.” — Elizabeth Berg People Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. — Elizabeth Berg Always Copy Share Image
“Whenever Sadie sees engagement rings, she feels a strange mix of emotions: a kind of excitement mixed with a vague sadness. A… — Elizabeth Berg Engagement ring Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. — Elizabeth Berg Incredibles Copy Share Image
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just… — Elizabeth Berg Celebrate Copy Share Image
“The summer I was ten years old, there was a group of kids in my neighborhood who played together every night after… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
“Everybody has thoughts that shame them. You can’t control them coming in. But you don’t have to let them all out.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting… — Elizabeth Berg Writing Copy Share Image
“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 Everybody makes mistakes 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 Summer 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
“The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when… — Elizabeth Berg Fat people Copy Share Image
“Oh, Arthur, no one even sees you when you get old except for people who knew you when you were young.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Middle age Copy Share Image
“Didn’t I tell you about her? She stuck her fingers in her vagina and then rubbed the stuff behind her ears. She… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won… — Elizabeth Berg War Copy Share Image
“He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow.” — Elizabeth Berg Grief Copy Share Image
