The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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