Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

editor-author-medicine-cabinet-soul-terrible-emotions-desire-vindications

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's Popular Quotes

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 combina…

- Betsy Lerner

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

- Betsy Lerner

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…

- Betsy Lerner

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 h…

- Betsy Lerner

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

- Betsy Lerner

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

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

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…

- Betsy Lerner

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