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Betsy Lerner quotes: Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

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

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

Betsy Lerner quotes: It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

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

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

Betsy Lerner quotes: What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

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.

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

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

Betsy Lerner quotes: But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

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

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.

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: Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.

Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.

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.

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: I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

Betsy Lerner quotes: I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

Betsy Lerner quotes: All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.

All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.