313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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.

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

It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

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.

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

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.

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

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.