I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. — Elizabeth Berg Communication Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Brain Copy Share Image
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one… — Elizabeth Berg Art Copy Share Image
“It’s not always a good idea, digging around in the past,” he said. “I done that once. I went to see the… — Elizabeth Berg Digging Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here,… — Elizabeth Berg Believe Copy Share Image
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am… — Elizabeth Berg Grateful Copy Share Image
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the… — Elizabeth Berg Dating Copy Share Image
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and… — Elizabeth Berg Good thing Copy Share Image
“I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat.… — Elizabeth Berg Every morning Copy Share Image
I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and… — Elizabeth Berg Clear Copy Share Image
“I am living on a planet where the silk dresses of Renaissance women rustled, where people died in plagues, where Mozart sat… — Elizabeth Berg Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...and there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden… — Elizabeth Berg Innocence Copy Share Image
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and… — Elizabeth Berg Bed Copy Share Image
“But finally my own version of God came to me in a dream, complete with a name: Corambe. He was a warm… — Elizabeth Berg Dreams Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved.… — Elizabeth Berg Children Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Shy person Copy Share Image
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we… — Elizabeth Berg Feels Copy Share Image
I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there… — Elizabeth Berg Come Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged… — Elizabeth Berg Burden Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg About 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 Writer Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's… — Elizabeth Berg Great Copy Share Image
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all… — Elizabeth Berg Answers Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need… — Elizabeth Berg Making a mistake Copy Share Image
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet… — Elizabeth Berg Another woman Copy Share Image
“Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and… — Elizabeth Berg Heart Copy Share Image
“When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long… — Elizabeth Berg Feel Copy Share Image
I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to… — Elizabeth Berg Away Copy Share Image
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing… — Elizabeth Berg Dance Copy Share Image
“ CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE’S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO” — Elizabeth Berg Happiness Copy Share Image
“All these small things are the glue that keeps you bound to your own life. They are the things that make you… — Elizabeth Berg Respect Copy Share Image
“But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like… — Elizabeth Berg Change your life Copy Share Image
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Enough time Copy Share Image
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the… — Elizabeth Berg Lines Copy Share Image
I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the… — Elizabeth Berg Boxes Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Contemplation Copy Share Image
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching… — Elizabeth Berg Dark Copy Share Image
“People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved.… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and… — Elizabeth Berg Compass Copy Share Image
“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
