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“Indeed, after witnessing the bold new kind of editorial work Perkins was undertaking with Wolfe, Mrs. Boyd worked up the courage to ask Max a question that had long intrigued her. ‘Why don’t you write yourself?’ she inquired in a letter. ‘I have a feeling you could write so much better than most of the people who do write.’ Perkins delivered his response when they next met. She recalled, ‘Max just stared at me for a long time and said, ‘Because I’m an editor.’” (Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. Berg.)

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