In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
Betsy LernerI 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 LernerIndeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
Betsy LernerThe 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