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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. "
Elizabeth Berg
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" The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. "
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" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "
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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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" Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. "
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" I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. "
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" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "
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" Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman. "
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" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "
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" 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. "
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" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "
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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? "
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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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" We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. "
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" When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship. "
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" It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can. "
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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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" 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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" 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 this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine. "
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" Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. "
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" My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family. "
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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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