When I was in college I went through a period when all I read was Fitzgerald. I’d forgotten how much I loved the glimmer and precision of his prose, until I picked up a copy of The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western, the novel he was writing when…
“The first thing you must remember…(is that an) editor does not add to a book. At best he serves as a handmaiden to an author. Don’t ever get to feeling important about yourself, because an an editor at most releases energy. He creates nothing.” *** That exceedingly modest quotation was…