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

- Betsy Lerner

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

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 vindicat…

- 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

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

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?.

- 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