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Elizabeth Berg Quotes

American - Author | December 2, 1948 -

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

Writing You Teach Never Big Per

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.

Work House Quiet Laundry Go Office

I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

Love People Trying Way Talk Listen

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

Work People Admire Always Whose

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

Imagination You Matter Need Active

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.

Reputation Voice Always Head Off

As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.

Mother Tree Joy Child Me Thought

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.

Book End Divorce Kind True Write

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

Alone Loneliness Chicago Lived Had

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

Winter Best City Think Hands Down

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

Experience Writing Book Own Every

One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page!

Life Learning Great People Writing

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