"The world doesnâ€™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 lifeâ€¦.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 understoodâ€¦. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. Whatâ€™s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection."

-- Betsy Lerner

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