anybody who’s
educated can write but
reading’s like breathing
“There are editors who will always feel guilty that they aren’t writers,” he explained. “I can write perfectly well — anybody who’s educated can write perfectly well. It’s very, very hard, and I just don’t like the activity. Whereas reading is like breathing.”
From the obit, Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 by Robert D. McFadden in the New York Times
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