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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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“There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
A good novel editor is invisible.”
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A good novel editor is invisible.”
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“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.”
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“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.”
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
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