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10 quotesA writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Editing and Editors
Marianne Moore
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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
Editing and Editors
Harold Wallace Ross
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Editing and Editors
T. S. Eliot
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If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.
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Kelvin Mackenzie
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Henry James
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Joseph Addison
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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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There is but one art, to omit.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
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Cecil B. De Mille
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When in doubt, delete it.
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Philip Cosby
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun