I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion… — Elizabeth Berg Nature Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable… — Elizabeth Berg 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 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 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
“He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he’d die himself, of the sorrow. He says he’d read that grief… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience,… — Elizabeth Berg Cancer Copy Share Image
“Nona leans forward, "I had-a love." I nod. "You know how it was? It was like-a trees. Oak and elm." Her voice… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have… — Elizabeth Berg Family Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity.… — Elizabeth Berg Creativity Copy Share Image
Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place… — Elizabeth Berg Earth Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost.… — Elizabeth Berg World war 2 Copy Share Image
“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Dreams 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 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 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
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
“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
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 invisible dangers in a normal day wrought by overactive technology, fueled by greed. Soon we’ll have a whole world meeting for… — Elizabeth Berg Greed 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 Copy Share Image
“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, just when you think you’re going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There’s only so much room… — Elizabeth Berg Human heart Copy Share Image
“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
“What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she’s not seen in such a… — Elizabeth Berg Life Copy Share Image
No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it.… — Elizabeth Berg Beautiful Copy Share Image
Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I… — Elizabeth Berg Character Copy Share Image
“No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me… — Elizabeth Berg Love Copy Share Image
“And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a… — Elizabeth Berg Dark Copy Share Image
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the… — Elizabeth Berg Character Copy Share Image
“Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift,… — Elizabeth Berg Art making Copy Share Image
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the… — Elizabeth Berg Courage Copy Share Image
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