A Little Quoting Never Hurt Anyone

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm” - C.S. Lewis

Ah, editing. Where you can’t even have beef with the person asking you to kill your sacred cows because that person is you.

It can be a painful exercise, true, but one that is often all the more rewarding for having been done.

Better to embrace the suck now and try to ride the lightning (without being too ruthless) than be counted among those timid souls whose manuscript rest atop their desk like the bloated corpse of a beached whale.