Elizabeth Berg Quotes

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I put my soul into every book I write.

I like being a writer.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

No writer … has any life in the absence of people who need what he writes

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.