Quotes by : Betsy Lerner

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the....

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.

[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....

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

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....