Quotes by Betsy Lerner - Page 1

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Editors
Eye
World
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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.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Life Is
People
Trying
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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 to behold.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Book
Matter
Way
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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 came from?.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Brain
Dots
Littles
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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.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Communicate
Isolation
Lonely
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... 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 / Poet
Doe
World
Writing
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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.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Pages
World
Writing
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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 / Poet
Fashion
Thinking
Writing
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Dream
Realizing
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Giving Up
Heart
Years
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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 came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Depression
Brain
Desire
Littles
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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 whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Believe
Blue
Writing
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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 have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Book
Lying
People
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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 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 / Poet
Book
Revenge
Sex
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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.
Betsy Lerner / Poet
Jobs
Believe
Writing
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