Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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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.
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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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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 think writers are born, not made.
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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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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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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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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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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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People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.
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Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.
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No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
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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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Every book is its own experience, the writing of 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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I don't have a medicine cabinet.
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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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Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
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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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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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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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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?