Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Success
  • Day
  • Understanding

• Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Color
  • Just
  • Bull

• I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Hate
  • Mean

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Inspired
  • Champion
  • Legend

• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God

• I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It's not a government handout. If anything, it's a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.

  

  Cory Booker
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Important
  • Writing

• This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Me

• Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book