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> [The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/the-border-between-editing-and-ghostwriting-is-at-its-extremes-a-bit/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

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## More by Judith Thurman

> [Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/long-before-feminism-made-fashion-a-guilty-pleasure-my-first/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [ And that may be \[Helen Gurley\] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/and-that-may-be-helen-gurley-brown-s-most-enlightened-lesson-that/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/as-for-the-multiple-editions-in-the-case-of-a-truly-great-writer/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/the-border-between-editing-and-ghostwriting-is-at-its-extremes-a-bit/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [“There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/there-s-some-instinctive-attraction-that-draws-you-as-a-writer-to/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/we-have-one-life-to-live-and-one-chance-to-live-it-in-the-richest-way/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/this-is-the-river-of-the-great-19th-century-landscapists-of-cole/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/a-mad-person-sees-what-isn-t-there-a-visionary-sees-what-isn-t-there/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/every-dreamer-knows-that-it-is-entirely-possible-to-be-homesick-for-a/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/conservatives-like-palin-and-reagan-and-others-do-seem-to-love-the/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/insecurity-however-is-a-luxury-on-which-i-never-economize/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/here-was-a-monument-in-fieldstone-to-the-art-of-family-life/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [“You have to stand out and you have to fit in. And how you negotiate that tension really defines how fashionable you are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/you-have-to-stand-out-and-you-have-to-fit-in-and-how-you-negotiate/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/if-you-are-forced-to-describe-things-for-someone-else-it-sharpens/)

[Judith Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-thurman/)

> [Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-thurman/even-after-several-hospitalizations-for-alcohol-and-drug-related/)

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