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All Quotes by author - Elizabeth Berg

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them. "

" As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it. "

" As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work. "

" Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them. "

" Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny? "

" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "

" Every book is its own experience, the writing of it. "

" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "

" 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. "

" I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. "

" Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

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

" I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. "

" If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. "

" If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction. "

" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "

" If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. "

" I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. "

" If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. "

" 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. "

" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "

" I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed. "

" I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" 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. "

" I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.' "

" 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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