Quotation

Editors should be anonymous. More than that, there's always the fear that I deformed your book. Who's to say it wasn't the way it was meant to be when you first brought it in? War and peace. Not just war. ... That's what we editors lose sleep over, you know? Are we really making books better? Or just making them different? === It's one damn vacation, for Christ's sake! Louise, a writer like tom, i get one in a lifetime. -You get your daughters for the same lifetime. === I'll tell you one thing, my friend. You wouldn't do this to Hemingway. You wouldn't do this to Fitzgerald, not to your two goddamn sacred cows! Every word they write is golden genius!