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“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”
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“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
“I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.”
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
“Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.”
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“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”
― The Forest for the Trees
― The Forest for the Trees
Willamette Book Club
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— last activity Sep 11, 2012 08:12PM
Here's a place to talk about books we're reading as a group, or even books that you love and would like to share with your fellow members. ...more
A Killer (Re)Read - The Throne of Glass Series Readalong
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— last activity Sep 02, 2019 02:28AM
Join us in summer 2014 as we read the first two books in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series--Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight--in advance of the ...more
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