But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Books Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Book Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being… — Betsy Lerner Alive Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Brain Copy Share Image
“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the… — Betsy Lerner Opposites Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Writing Copy Share Image
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And… — Betsy Lerner Change Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Attempting Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Life Copy Share Image
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach… — Betsy Lerner Communicate Copy Share Image
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Life Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner Life Copy Share Image
“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.” — Betsy Lerner Humor Copy Share Image
“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come… — Betsy Lerner Truly love Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Book Copy Share Image
Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you… — Betsy Lerner Advice Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Brain Copy Share Image
“My mother is always eager to talk when I come over, as if she were a famous actress and I am Diane… — Betsy Lerner Mother Copy Share Image
“Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.” — Betsy Lerner Life advice Copy Share Image
“Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.” — Betsy Lerner Self worth Copy Share Image
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words… — Betsy Lerner Attempting Copy Share Image
“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.” — Betsy Lerner Change Copy Share Image
“What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?” — Betsy Lerner Change Copy Share Image
“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.” — Betsy Lerner Children Copy Share Image
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing… — Betsy Lerner Book Copy Share Image
