Writer Quotes by Betsy Lerner

9 Writer quotes by Betsy Lerner

You’ll encounter nine short quotes from Betsy Lerner that reveal her warm, emotionally resonant storytelling style. The set is modest, yet each line offers a clear taste of the compassion and insight she brings to her work.

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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach…

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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

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“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”

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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing…

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“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come…

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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of…

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…

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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of…

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But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for…

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Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is…

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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems…

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“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to…

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“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”

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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom…

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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…

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“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…

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Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

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“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”

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“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking…

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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire…

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