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Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Always Because Being Distracted Head Off Other Rarely Reputation Tuned Turns Voice Writers

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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.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Brain Brain Surgery Doing Interruptions Million Need People Place Random Should Subject Surgery Therefore Type Understand Work Works Writing You

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As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Bathroom Child Christmas Down Every Had Hand Hang House Involved Joy Labor Make Me Mother Never Occurred Prepare Privilege Room Rug Saw Strand Sure Thought Touch Towels Tree Year

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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Been Category Laundry Mother Olympics Were Winner Would

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No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Am Deeply Did Different Different Kind Endlessly Grateful Kind Mother Person She Who I Am

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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.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: About Book Books Come Divorce Divorced End Example Feels For Example Happening Kind Like Then Things True Up Write Wrote I Write

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When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Alone Chicago Had Issues Lived Loneliness Lot

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I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Anymore Best Chicago City Country Down Hands Like Think Winter I Think

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Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Book Every Experience Own Writing

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If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Anything Aspiring Could Counsel First Foremost If I Could Keep Own Say Writers Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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