Quotes by : Betsy Lerner

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All....

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can.....

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

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the....

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book....

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number....

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one....

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling....