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" 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. "

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" 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

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See

Ice Cream

" 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. "

" I think writers are born, not made. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. "

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

" 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. "

Elizabeth Berg

Way

Thought

" Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. "

" 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. "

" When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. "

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

" I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does. "

" Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more. "

" I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. "

" Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times. "

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

" When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. "

Elizabeth Berg

Where

Just

" My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. "

" 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

Boston

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

" I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

Elizabeth Berg

Cabinet

Medicine

" Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love. "

" I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again. "

" I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. "

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

" 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? "