"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
- John Ciardi
"A serious reviewer should have an ax to grind. If you don't, your judgements will appear ephemeral, casual, even indifferent. But when you have an ax to grind, it is essential that you should not know what it is, and neither should anyone else."
- Anatole Broyard
"The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read."
- Norman Cousins
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