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Betsy Lerner Quotes

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 better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up Picture Quote #1

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 strangely more lifelike than life Picture Quote #1

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer’s life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people Picture Quote #1

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? Picture Quote #1

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books Picture Quote #1

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold Picture Quote #1

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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 strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection Picture Quote #1

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer’s life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people Picture Quote #1

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person Picture Quote #1

Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything Picture Quote #1

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood Picture Quote #1

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world Picture Quote #1

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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 better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up (Betsy Lerner Quotes) 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 strangely more lifelike than life (Betsy Lerner Quotes) Indeed, the great paradox of the writer’s life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. (Betsy Lerner Quotes) I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? (Betsy Lerner Quotes) When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books (Betsy Lerner Quotes) No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold (Betsy Lerner Quotes) 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 strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection (Betsy Lerner Quotes) Indeed, the great paradox of the writer’s life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people (Betsy Lerner Quotes) 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 Quotes) Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything (Betsy Lerner Quotes) ... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood (Betsy Lerner Quotes) But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world (Betsy Lerner Quotes)