Opposites Quote by Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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…

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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…

— Betsy Lerner

“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…

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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…

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Betsy Lerner