Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
