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“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979)”
― Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters
― Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

“A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.”
― Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
― Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.”
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
“A magazine鈥攁 relevant one鈥攕hould be a sound, not an echo.”
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“A good journalist must be neutral,鈥� were the first word she heard from her professor at Georgetown.
鈥淣o journalist is, nor will be, nor really should be neutral,鈥� were the first word spoken to her by editor-in-chief of the Des Moines Registrant. 鈥淲e鈥檙e all biased one way or the other and that鈥檚 fine. It鈥檚 like in the court of law, two points of view clashing so the truth can emerge. Being objective is not the same as being neutral.”
― A perfect Patricide: Part 1
鈥淣o journalist is, nor will be, nor really should be neutral,鈥� were the first word spoken to her by editor-in-chief of the Des Moines Registrant. 鈥淲e鈥檙e all biased one way or the other and that鈥檚 fine. It鈥檚 like in the court of law, two points of view clashing so the truth can emerge. Being objective is not the same as being neutral.”
― A perfect Patricide: Part 1

“If you tell me that I have to write the story of my life, I would be very quick to tell you that God has already written it. What I have to do is to quit playing editor.”
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“To ride the zeitgeist successfully, you have to know when it has turned.”
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“Every other author may aspire to praise... the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.”
― The Liar's Dictionary
― The Liar's Dictionary

“Become a motivator of writing, not the butcher of it; similarly, become an editor, not the copy editor.”
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“Editing a written text is a collaborative enterprise that commences with the other parties commenting up the author鈥檚 initial ideas and it can include technical assistance in correction of grammatical mistakes, misspellings, poorly structured sentences, vague or inconsistent statements, and correcting errors in citations. Editing is as much as an art form as writing a creative piece of literature. A good editor is a trusted person whom instructs the writer to speak plainly and unabashedly informs the writer when they write absolute gibberish. Perhaps the most successful relationship between a writer and an editor is the storied relationship shared by Thomas Wolfe and his renowned editor, Maxwell Perkins. By all accounts, the prodigiously talented and mercurial Wolfe was hypersensitive to criticism. Perkins provided Wolfe with constant reassurance and substantially trimmed the text of his books. Before Perkins commenced line editing and proofreading Wolfe鈥檚 bestselling autobiography Look Homeward, Angel,鈥� the original manuscript exceeded 1,100 pages. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Wolfe declared that his goal when writing 鈥淟ook Homeward, Angel,鈥� was 鈥渢o loot my life clean, if possible of every memory which a buried life and the thousand faces of forgotten time could awaken and to weave it into a 鈥� densely woven web.鈥� After looting my own dormant memories by delving into the amorphous events that caused me to lose faith in the world and assembling the largely formless mulch into a narrative manuscript of dubious length, I understand why a writer wishes to thank many people for their assistance, advice, and support in publishing a book.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“He thought it was great and would make a terrific story - Adventure Writer Embroiled in Real Adventure! As she recalled all the bruises, cuts and bullet wounds on her previous travels, Vic wondered what he considered a real adventure.”
― Vic: Bloody Reprisal
― Vic: Bloody Reprisal

“I believe the poem and the poet are one. All of us are a part of this universe, and there is a universe within us. So as individuals, we are poetic universes swinging in a rhythm, carving our paths like musical notes...”
― Aatish 2
― Aatish 2

“Jesus answered, 鈥業 am the way and the truth and the life.鈥欌€� In this single sentence we have the power to destroy our entire world by simply changing out one name and replacing it with our own. And I wonder how much destruction we need to experience before we quit playing editor?”
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“Should an unpublished writer spend money for an editor? I did my own due diligence and searched for ones that edited many books in my genre (found one through my writers group), and paid each one handsomely. It was well worth it. Got me traditionally published, each time.”
― Oware Mosaic
― Oware Mosaic

“脜terstod problemet att skaffa en ny redakt枚r. Enligt bolagets nya program skulle han 盲ga f枚ljande kvalifikationer: han skulle f枚rst 氓tnjuta odelat f枚rtroende som medborgare, tillh枚ra 盲mbetsmannak氓ren, 盲ga en titel, usurperad eller f枚rv盲rvad, som vid behov kunde p氓b盲ttras; han skulle dessutom 盲ga ett respektabelt utseende, s氓 att han kunde visas vid fester och andra offentliga n枚jen; han skulle vara osj盲lvst盲ndig, liten smula dum, emedan bolaget visste att den sanna dumheten alltid 氓tf枚ljes av konservatism i t盲nkes盲tt och d盲rj盲mte av en viss grad bakslughet, som k盲nner f枚rm盲ns 枚nskningar i luften och som aldrig gl枚mmer, att allm盲nt v盲l 盲r enskilt, r盲tteligen f枚rst氓tt n盲mligen; han skulle tillika vara halvgammal, emedan man l盲ttare skulle kunna styra honom, och gift, emedan bolaget, som bestod av aff盲rsm盲n, sett att gifta dr盲ngar uppf枚r sig b盲ttre 盲n ogifta.”
― R枚da Rummet
― R枚da Rummet

“Apakah tulisan pria ada artinya kalau tidak dibaca siapa pun? Apakah kata kata memiliki arti kalau tidak pernah didengarkan?”
― Romancing Mister Bridgerton
― Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“I have Just discovered that creating a recipe is like writing, the art is knowing when to stop adding and changing the ingredients. - Chris Geiger”
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“Confieso que no puede menos de causarme mucha admiracion que obras de esta naturaleza, buscadas por los sabios de la nacion, apetecidas de todo curioso, elogiadas, traducidas y publicadas diferentes veces por los estrangeros, enemigos jurados de las glorias de Espa帽a, lleguen 谩 escasearse, y escasearse en unos tiempos en que vemos repetidas y multiplicadas ediciones de otras que es imposible sean de tanto interes para nuestra nacion, ni tan acreedoras 谩 la inmortalidad”
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