Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water. - Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: "Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water."

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Accompanied	Activity	Beauty	Concerning
Critic	Each	Enormous	Every
Fabulist	Force	General	Governed
Iceberg	Necessarily	Ninetenths	Principles
Rejection	Selection	Sentence	Skeleton
Truth	Under	Water	Writer

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