Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
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Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
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Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
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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 good writing: by reading.
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We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.
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I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
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When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.
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Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is.
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A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.
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When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.
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No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
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In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
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No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.
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It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
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As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.