Elizabeth Berg

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff. ”

You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. ”

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. ”

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. ”

Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. ”

I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. ”

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry. ”