“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”
“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.”
Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees“...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, The Forest for the Trees“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”
Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees“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, The Forest for the Trees“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, The Forest for the Trees“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”
Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees“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, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”
Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories“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.”
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