A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #70

The essentials are only two: taking a piece of writing seriously; and criticizing it with a view to helping it be what it wants to be. It cannot be done without some degree of abrasion. You don’t sharpen a knife on a cake of soap.

– from On the Teaching of Creative Writing by Wallace Stegner

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