313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.

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.

I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.