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" In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with. "

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" 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. "

Elizabeth Berg

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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. "

" It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce. "

Elizabeth Berg

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" No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. "

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

" 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

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Boston

" 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

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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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" 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. "

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

" When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. "

" 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. "

" I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. "

" 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. "

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

" Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work. "

" Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. "

" I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. "