The books I had edited were not earning scads of money, even when “scads” didn’t mean what it means now. The question of priorities-how can you edit and write at the same time-seemed to me both queer and predictable it sounded like “How can you both teach and create?” “How can a painter or a sculptor or an actor do her work and guide others?” But to many this edit–write combination was conflicting.
One, I had written four novels and it seemed clear to everyone that writing was my central work. In any case, I had been part-time for a while, coming into the publishing house one day a week to do the correspondence-telephoning-meetings that were part of the job editing manuscripts at home.
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