Max PErkins and William Shawn have been credited by Hemingway and Salinger as having given feedback worth more than a damn... On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote: > > > I can't think of any literary anecdote where any writer worth a damn > accepted the feedback of his readers or editors - except perhaps > where there was some problem about getting past censors or making > it more marketable in Poughkeepsie. The only texts these chaps > regard as sacred are the ones they wrote. >