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Originally Posted by issybird
[...] I think it's partially authors who are too big to edit, no matter what, and also that editing doesn't pay in that it makes no difference to end sales. Oh, for the days of Maxwell Perkins!
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It would be interesting to know what advice Stephen Fry received. Did anyone even try to tell him it was too long-winded? Or was there an automatic bowing to a man who was already making a living from his words?
Bookpossum suggested earlier that perhaps the target audience was undergraduates, and that seems possible. I know that I got the sense from some of Fry's autobiographical work that it was targeted at people more familiar with the personalities of the UK entertainment industry than I was.