'Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.'
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'Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.'