When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.
Tags: people, home, relationship, love

Other Quotes by "Elizabeth Berg"

In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
Tags: person, think, look, world
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
Tags: white, feet, political, humor
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.
Tags: joy, mother, tree, me
I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
Tags: still, three, loved
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
Tags: feel, men, woman, you
View More by "Elizabeth Berg"