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

Fashion Thinking Writing
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

Admit Feeling Instead Represented Simmered
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 People Trying
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

Pages World Writing
But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
BETSY LERNER

Editors Eye World
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

Book Matter Way
… 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

Doe World Writing
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

Communicate Isolation Lonely
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.
BETSY LERNER

Book Lying People
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

Brain Dots Littles
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

Dream Realizing Thinking

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