American - Author | December 2, 1948 -
Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is.
Elizabeth Berg
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I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
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I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.
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No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.
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Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.
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I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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