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~ Maxwell Perkins Quotes ~
« on: May 03, 2015, 09:44:05 PM »
Maxwell Perkins Quotes


The editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947), was the editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. He has been described as the most famous literary editor.

Here are some famous quotes by Maxwell Perkins.




You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Maxwell Perkins Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 09:45:03 PM »
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Maxwell Perkins Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 09:50:53 PM »
Just get it down on paper and then we'll see what to do with it.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Maxwell Perkins Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 09:53:38 PM »
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Maxwell Perkins Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2015, 09:54:42 PM »
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer when he tried to write of some particular day he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense but that ability is at the bottom of writing I am sure.