I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at leas…

- Maxwell Perkins

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the wo…

- Maxwell Perkins

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

- Maxwell Perkins

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

- Maxwell Perkins

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

- Maxwell Perkins

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

- Maxwell Perkins

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could…

- Maxwell Perkins

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

- Maxwell Perkins

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

- Maxwell Perkins