A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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