Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Elizabeth Berg

American Author

Born: Dec 2, 1948

Life Me People Think Writing You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. Elizabeth Berg

Cake Favorite Vanilla See Potatoes Off Egg Ice Ice Cream Turkey Chocolate Cream Chocolate Cake Homemade Right Gravy Sausage

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. Elizabeth Berg

You World Value Reading Rich Enriching Does Inestimable Literature

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. Elizabeth Berg

Good Book Think Good Parent Parent Write Than Much Harder

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. Elizabeth Berg

Good Conflict Think One Of The Things Good Story Makes Story Things

I just cannot stand an unmade bed. Elizabeth Berg

Bed Just Cannot Stand

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. Elizabeth Berg

Time Starts Slip Write Idea Most Whenever Novel

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se. Elizabeth Berg

You Writing Big Per Never Big Believer Teach Believer

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry. Elizabeth Berg

Work Wonderful Go Away Laundry Boston Had House Because Go Quiet Office Refrigerator Lived Found Away

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. Elizabeth Berg

Think Case More Imperfect Than Often Beings

I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. Elizabeth Berg

Work People Admire Always Helping Helping People Whose Believed

You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. Elizabeth Berg

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. Elizabeth Berg

Christmas Me Joy Mother Thought Year Down Every Tree Rug Bathroom Saw Touch Never Had Towels Involved House Make Sure Occurred Hand Labor Privilege Child Hang Tinsel Room Strand Prepare

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

Book Example Books Kind About Write Divorce Divorced True Feels Come Like For Example Wrote End Up Happening Then Things

One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page! 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

Day Happy Book Consider Dilemma Books Recommend Pick Also How Am Depended Just Loved Just One Asked Publicly

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. Elizabeth Berg

Time Book Every Books Draw Out Plot Inside Inside-Out Similarities Always Surprised Different Happen Process Them Things

I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written. Elizabeth Berg

Best Me Sometimes Believe Embarrassed About Written Goods Know Opposite Durable Happens Works Novelist Thing Early

No more Elizabeth Berg quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Elizabeth Berg.