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1. "It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak." ~ Betsy Lerner
2. "But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves." ~ Betsy Lerner
3. "When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books." ~ Betsy Lerner
4. "[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul." ~ Betsy Lerner
5. "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
6. "...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
7. "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
8. "I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers." ~ Betsy Lerner
9. "For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking younger, trimmer, and standing straighter." ~ Betsy Lerner

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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources."
Author: Alvin Toffler

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