Quote

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

Elizabeth Berg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Thing
Inventing
Empathy
Characters
Concerned
Character
Need
Important
Needs

More quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Image
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
There are some things you never say good-bye to
Elizabeth Berg
Image
One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
Elizabeth Berg
Image
My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands
Elizabeth Berg
Image
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others.
Elizabeth Berg
Image
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Elizabeth Berg