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“There are, it seems, two kinds of editors. The first kind cares mainly about himself, about how his editing performance reflects on him and getting ahead or getting stroked or getting to lunch, as the case may be. Such editors are not editors at all … A real editor,...
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet
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A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people...
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." -T.S. Eliot, publisher, playwright, literary, social critic and poet
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"A book is a gift you can open again and again.” -Garrison Keillor, author, and radio host of the Minnesota Public Radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion"
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"When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it." ― Julian Barnes, 2011 Booker Prize winner for The Sense of an Ending