“I’m sorry for writing such a long letter, I had no time for a short one.” This quote implies that the generative process is easier than the editing one. The myth of the artist as a generative genius may be false. More likely that top artists are geniuses in editing.
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What's the difference between editing and creating?
That is a very interesting question. This is a derived difference, but editing is much more relaxing, because you're fixing something that already exists. You don't face that stressful blank page or canvas.
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A sculptor is editing his material then.
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Well, not really. Only in the sense that a writer who started with a page of random letters and had to turn it into an interesting essay or story could be said to be editing.
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