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Originally Posted by radleyp
The New York Times yesterday published a very good piece by Jonathan Galassi, chairman and editor in chief at Farrar Straus & Giroux on the need for (good) editors. Few writers have what Hemingway once declared a necessity, a "built-in shit detector", so good editors are required.
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Still he had editors for his work. I read a quote from him in the last couple of days where he said
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
His 5 tips:
http://www.copyblogger.com/ernest-he...-writing-well/