American - Author | December 2, 1948 -
Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
Elizabeth Berg
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I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.
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Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.
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No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.
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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?
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I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.
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Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.
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I just cannot stand an unmade bed.
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I don't have a medicine cabinet.
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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
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When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
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