“When Arthur gets home, he pulls the mail from the box, brings it into the kitchen to sort through it, then tosses… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Black 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
“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
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them… — Elizabeth Berg Ahead Copy Share Image
“Oh, why isn’t there a Community Center for People Who Need a Little Something? If people would only tell the truth about… — Elizabeth Berg Truth Copy Share Image
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. — Elizabeth Berg Mother Copy Share Image
“Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off… — Elizabeth Berg Given Copy Share Image
“We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory,… — Elizabeth Berg Goals Copy Share Image
I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was… — Elizabeth Berg Absent 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
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. — Elizabeth Berg Around 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
“There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you’re happy. Fight against it… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would… — Elizabeth Berg Doe 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
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
My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place. — Elizabeth Berg Heart Copy Share Image
“You are where I unlock myself, where I say that I have often put down my wooden spoon to stare out the… — Elizabeth Berg Good people Copy Share Image
It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Behinds Copy Share Image
“This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place… — Elizabeth Berg Life Copy Share Image
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as… — Elizabeth Berg Connections Copy Share Image
“Already I’ve seen that when you’re pulled away from your normal routine, it’s as though air and sunlight come into your brain… — Elizabeth Berg Habits Copy Share Image
