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Quote by T.S. Eliot
Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers.

Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

Other quotes by T.S. Eliot

Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow

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