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January 08, 2009
Writing Well: The Editor
"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 January 8, 2009 04:54 AM