Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.