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I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
Elizabeth Berg
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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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I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.
Elizabeth Berg -
I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.
Elizabeth Berg -
I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.
Elizabeth Berg -
I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
Elizabeth Berg -
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.
Elizabeth Berg
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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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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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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
Elizabeth Berg -
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
Elizabeth Berg -
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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As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.
Elizabeth Berg
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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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We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.
Elizabeth Berg -
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?
Elizabeth Berg -
I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
Elizabeth Berg -
The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
Elizabeth Berg -
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
Elizabeth Berg
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Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
Elizabeth Berg -
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
Elizabeth Berg -
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
Elizabeth Berg -
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
Elizabeth Berg