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Dialogue is the yeast that lightens the bread; & should be paid for at double rate -- whereas by the word-system it counts the same as the dough.
- Letter to Richard Watson Gilder, 29 April 1898

Dialogue costs twice as much time & thought & emendation as does solid matter, & when satisfactorily done will hold a reader when solid matter won't.
- Letter to Richard Watson Gilder, 29 April 1898

Both above quotes as reprinted in textual notes for Is He Dead? edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Available from amazon.com

Is He Dead?


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