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Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.
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― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?
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