Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage. - James Thurber

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, "How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?" and avoid "How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?"

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?