This letter, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, who was her editor for the Little Prairie books, is priceless.
[With thanks to Thea, and Slate.]
You have to keep your eye on the job because words are very sly, the rubbishy ones go into hiding and you have to dig them out—repetition, synonyms, things that simply don’t mean anything.
[Isaak Babel]
This letter, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, who was her editor for the Little Prairie books, is priceless.
[With thanks to Thea, and Slate.]