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Another Brownell adage that Perkins subscribed to was that the worst reason for publishing anything was that it resembled something else, that however unconscious, “an imitation is always inferior.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The editor steps back, views the work holistically, and supports its full potential. The editor is the professional in the poet.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
to write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."
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True to his word, Perkins described for Miss Lemmon a typical workday: Tuesday, July 29, 1935. As always, Max said, he began with the heap of mail waiting on his desk.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
describing the job of editor. It was not, he said, as it once had been, confined mainly to correcting spelling and punctuation. Rather, it was to know what to publish, how to get it, and what to do to help it achieve the largest readership. At