Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg Download Open image “I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.” — Elizabeth Berg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Books Reflect Comedy Find Humor Humor Pathos Life Mix Humor Pathos Pathos Books Reflect
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that. — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think a sense of humor vital to get through life: It's a great link between people and can be very effective in a… — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg 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
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I… — Elizabeth Berg 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 to someone… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image