122 Quotes by Laura van den Berg

For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions.

The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my life.

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort of interior storm that's growing within Joy over the course of the book and leading her to her moment. And certainly, I think there's an aspect of the supernatural.

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story in some ways as like a train window: being able to watch the landscape pass for a certain amount of time. And then your stop arrives, and you have to leave.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.