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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Around Everyone Everywhere Exist Insist Life Look See Them Themselves Traditions Trying Will You

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People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Application Blueprint Bring Comfortable Families Family Feel Follow Helps Lives Make Makes Meaning Nothing Old Order Out People Rigid See Sense Something Stability Them Today Tradition Traditions Us Whatever

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Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Article End Feel Finish Fired Gets Her Imagination Interesting Might Newspaper Occur People Provocative Questions Read Reads She Some Some People Story Up Urge Writer

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

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: About Characters Children Create Like Them Then Way Worry

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I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: American Been Before Iowa Love Many Times To Love You

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No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Always Details Kind Make Matter Story Writing You

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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Book Buy Hope House People Presenting Random Road Will

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I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Anyone Brain Does Libraries Love Who I Love

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For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Hears Joyful Know Me Responds Someone Write Writer I Write

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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

Topics: About Accident Best Book Find Just Library Love Reading Someone Sometimes Talks Wandering You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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