313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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