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" I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se. "
Elizabeth Berg
You
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Never
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" I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated. "
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" No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way. "
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Way
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" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "
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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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Theme
" I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper. "
Elizabeth Berg
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Morning
Kind
" Every book is its own experience, the writing of it. "
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Writing
Experience
" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "
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" The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff. "
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Process
Yourself
" 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! "
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" 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
I Am
Happy
Book
" 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? "
Elizabeth Berg
Apple
Better
Deep
" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "
Elizabeth Berg
Idea
Starts
Time
" 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
Go
Boston
" Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. "
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Hard
Life
Work
" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "
Elizabeth Berg
Prepare
Me
Skills
" In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. "
Elizabeth Berg
Writing
Just
Most
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Worry
Away
Got
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Like
Present
Said
" 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
Thought
Mother
Me
" Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times. "
Elizabeth Berg
Hard Times
Hard
Real
" If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. "
Elizabeth Berg
Mother
Olympics
Laundry
" Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with. "
Elizabeth Berg
People
Love
Meaning
" When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. "
Elizabeth Berg
Lot
Loneliness
Alone
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Always
Head
Off
" Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work. "
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Joy
Great
Always
" 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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Try
Always
Time
" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "
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Cabinet
Medicine
" 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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Things
Mothers
True
" Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. "
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Doing
About
Better
" 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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Place
Say
Home