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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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" 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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Thought

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

" Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Kind

Book

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

Elizabeth Berg

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Medicine

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" 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. "

" 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

Present

Said

" 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. "