Elizabeth Berg

The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! ”

Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. ”

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. ”

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them. ”

It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. ”

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. ”

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. ”

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. ”

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. ”

I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper. ”