313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

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

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

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

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

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