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Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
To be a novelist, You have to select. You have to shape and sculpt. Thomas Wolfe:
Why? Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Because we've been working for two years and the book's only 100 pages shorter!
To be a novelist, You have to select. You have to shape and sculpt. Thomas Wolfe:
Why? Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Because we've been working for two years and the book's only 100 pages shorter!
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To be a novelist you have to select
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You have to shape and sculpt
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Why
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Because we've been working for two years and the book's only 100 pages shorter
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Movie Summary
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

