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" 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. "

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. "

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" 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. "

" Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page! "

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

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" 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. "

" The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. "

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

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

Elizabeth Berg

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Just

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

" It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading. "

" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "

Elizabeth Berg

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

" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "

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