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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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" You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. "

Elizabeth Berg

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. "

" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

" I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them. "

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

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

" With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "