Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
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I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.
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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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You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
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Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.
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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.
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People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.
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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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It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
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Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.
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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.
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I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
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I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
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I don't have a medicine cabinet.
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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 think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.
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Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.
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When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?