Elizabeth Berg quotes - page 2

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think. (Elizabeth Berg)

There are some things you never say good-bye to.

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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

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Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

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I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

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I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you.

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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

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How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

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Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. (Elizabeth Berg)

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

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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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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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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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My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.

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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 look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

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Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. (Elizabeth Berg)

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

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Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

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I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.

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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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Elizabeth Berg

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Occupation: American Author
Born: December 2, 1948
Quotes count: 51

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