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October 09, 2022

Henry James: On Editors.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

--Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article.

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Posted by JD Hull at October 9, 2022 02:39 AM

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