"Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life……" — Betsy Lerner
"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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15 Quotes by Betsy Lerner
Betsy Lerner has 15 quotes on this site.
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. 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…
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the…
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is…
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But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one…
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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…
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my…
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt…
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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,…
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Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you…
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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…
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More Alone Quotes
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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