I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. — Elizabeth Berg Conflict Copy Share Image
“Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.” — Elizabeth Berg Bare branches 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
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.' — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. — Elizabeth Berg 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
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems… — Elizabeth Berg Beauty Copy Share Image
“Isn’t life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn… — Elizabeth Berg Comedy Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise,… — Elizabeth Berg 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 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 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
“You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and… — Elizabeth Berg 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
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“We ate, we slept, we formed our kaleidoscopic relationships and marched ever forward. We licked chocolate from our fingers. We arranged flowers… — Elizabeth Berg 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 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
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them,… — Elizabeth Berg Feminism 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
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. — Elizabeth Berg 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 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
Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. — Elizabeth Berg People Copy Share Image
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.” — Elizabeth Berg Hope Copy Share Image
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
