‘It’s good, he said, but you can still cut it. He was right. It turns out you can always lose ten percent of the words. Always.’
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‘It is very simple. One might say it is the science of the bleeding obvious, but it is not always easy to do. Finish it.’
‘Only we know how deeply we felt those words, how hard we clung to the belief that they would one day find a shelf in a library or bookshop. And our characters! ‘