Writing Well: The Editors.

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” –H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.” –Henry James (1843-1916)after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article.

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Herbert George Wells, 1908