Betsy Lerner, The Forest For The Trees Quotes
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.
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
...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.
It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.