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Top 10 Betsy Lerner Quotes (2025 Update)

Betsy Lerner Quote: “Indeed, the great paradox of the writer’s life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.”

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

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “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 life.”

2. “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 life.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn’t know the difference.”

3. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn’t know the difference.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.”

4. “Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “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 myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.”

5. “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 myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”

6. “But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

7. “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

Betsy Lerner Quote: “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 have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.”

8. “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 have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “What I want to know it whether we’re supposed to change or just accept who we are?”

9. “What I want to know it whether we’re supposed to change or just accept who we are?”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.”

10. “Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.”

— Betsy Lerner

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

11. “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

Betsy Lerner Quote: “Chances are you have a deep connection to books because at some point you discovered that they were the one truly safe place to discover and explore feelings that are banished from the dinner table, the cocktail party, the golf foursome, the bridge game. Because the writers who mattered to you have dared to say I am a sick man. And because within the world of books there is no censure.”

12. “Chances are you have a deep connection to books because at some point you discovered that they were the one truly safe place to discover and explore feelings that are banished from the dinner table, the cocktail party, the golf foursome, the bridge game. Because the writers who mattered to you have dared to say I am a sick man. And because within the world of books there is no censure.”

— Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner Quote: “No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.”

13. “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

Betsy Lerner Quote: “Beware of all writers who substitute initials for their give names -.”

14. “Beware of all writers who substitute initials for their give names -.”

— Betsy Lerner

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