Quotes by Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees

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[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
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 — Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees
But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it — 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 behol — 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
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emot — 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 — Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees
It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees