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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

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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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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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