Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it's pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an extreme example, is not a wholesome thing. The editor's relationship to a book should be an invisible one.


Paris Review (No. 132, Fall 1994)


Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it's pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an...

Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it's pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an...

Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it's pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an...

Of course, if anybody says nice things about me in print it's pleasant. But the fact is, this glorification of editors, of which I have been an...