"I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse."
— Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)
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I had to have a friend help me cull the last 73 words from a max. 8,000 word paper yesterday. I know this pain.
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Drama queen. Bitch, I just cut 30 pages.
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