Michelangelo and Plato

Sometimes when my editor gets back to me in a letter about how the manuscript needs to be fixed, I think, but isn't that what I already wrote? Then I look back in the manuscript and realize that it is not, in fact, what I already wrote. It is what I thought I wrote, but what is in my head as the manuscript is not, strangely, what is always on the page.

I do not understand how this can actually be the case. I am one of those people who thinks it is very silly when authors talk about their ...