Ben Lerner Quotes

Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

Ben Lerner

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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Laura Marling
- Life
- Country
- Book
A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor
- Book
- You
- Gift
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Madeleine L'Engle
- Good
- Job
- Book
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.

M. J. Rose
- Book
- Marketing
- Plan
I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

FKA twigs
- Up
- Time
- Book
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

Patricia Highsmith
- Book
- Bad
- Me