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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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Where
Club
Book
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" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "
Elizabeth Berg
Always
Whose
Work
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Always
Head
Off
" I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. "
Elizabeth Berg
Find
Reflect
Mix
" My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. "
Elizabeth Berg
Cake
See
Ice Cream
" I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.' "
Elizabeth Berg
Place
Say
Home
" When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie? "
Elizabeth Berg
Apple
Better
Deep
" As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work. "
Elizabeth Berg
Work
Great
Reading
" I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does. "
Elizabeth Berg
Libraries
Who
Brain
" I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. "
Elizabeth Berg
Farmer
Crazy
Wife
" In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. "
Elizabeth Berg
Writing
Just
Most
" I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. "
Elizabeth Berg
To Love
You
Before
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Kind
Like
Book
" A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food. "
Elizabeth Berg
Food
Child
Story
" When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship. "
Elizabeth Berg
Love
Relationship
Home
" Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love. "
Elizabeth Berg
Reading
You
Best
" You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map. "
Elizabeth Berg
Too Much
Important
Attention
" Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. "
Elizabeth Berg
Order
Need
Write
" The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. "
Elizabeth Berg
You
Does
Reading
" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "
Elizabeth Berg
Prepare
Me
Skills
" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "
Elizabeth Berg
Writing
Cafe
Day
" I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se. "
Elizabeth Berg
You
Big
Never
" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "
Elizabeth Berg
Idea
Starts
Time
" I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them. "
Elizabeth Berg
Heart
Truth
Soul
" The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! "
Elizabeth Berg
Smart
Life
Real
" It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. "
Elizabeth Berg
Things
Mothers
True
" Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with. "
Elizabeth Berg
People
Love
Meaning
" I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. "
Elizabeth Berg
Good
Think
Conflict
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Nuts
Land
Food
" I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. "
Elizabeth Berg
Writing
Truth Is
Truth
" 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. "
Elizabeth Berg
Dance
Doing
Friend