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November 19, 2013

Writing Well: The Editor

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.

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Posted by JD Hull at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)