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Eliot could not have found a kinder, or more effective, way of putting me at ease. As we sat down, he said, “Tell me, as one editor to another, do you have much author trouble?” I could not help laughing, he laughed in return–he had a booming laugh–and that was the beginning of our friendship. His most memorable remark of the day occurred when I asked him if he agreed with the definition that most editors are failed writers, and he replied: “Perhaps, but so are most writers.”
Timothy Taylor, quoting editor Robert Giroux, “Are Editors Just Failed Writers?” Conversable Economist, November 20, 2020.
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Roger McKinney
Nov 23 2020 at 2:45pm
I love stories about Eliot. He was a great poet and essayist and friend if freedom. I wish he had spent a small part of his enormous energy and intellect on economics. Unfortunately, he was lazy in that respect. He just swallowed Chesterton’s distributism without giving it much thought.
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