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April 18, 2023
Writing Well: The Editors.
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." --H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
"I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse." --Henry James (1843-1916)after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article.
Herbert George Wells, 1908
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at April 18, 2023 11:59 PM
Comments
That's actually the perfect quotes as to how writers feel. It's like holding your baby up for bystanders to say how ugly it is.
Posted by: Joe Marchelewski at December 1, 2010 11:24 PM