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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. "

Elizabeth Berg

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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. "

Elizabeth Berg

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

" 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. "

" I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are. "

" It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62. "

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

" I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map. "

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

" No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person. "

" 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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" 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. "