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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Source: In Writers at Work, ed. by George Plimpton, 1988.
-- Elie Wiesel, (Sep 30 1928-2016), Romanian-US novelist; His works provide a sober yet passionate testament of the plight of Jews during WW II; awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986.

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