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Elizabeth Berg is a renowned American contemporary writer, born on December 2, 1948. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound character portrayals, which have won her a wide readership.

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“How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.”

Important Felt Forget Gone Important Things Panic Forget Everything

Book:What We Keep: A Novel

Source: What We Keep: A Novel

“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”

Thinking Needs Looks Mean Persons I Can Important Self My Own Fine Quiet Sickness Weariness

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.”

Thinking Men Trying May Important Earth Values Sound Prayer Reflection Schemes Making Time

Book:Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel

Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel

“You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.”

Feels Writing Important Answers Risk Important Things

Author:Elizabeth Berg

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

Needs Important Character Empathy Concerned Important Things Inventing

Author:Elizabeth Berg

About the Author

Born: December 2, 1948
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 105

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