“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: https://www.npr.org/2006/11/22/6524058/jodi-picoult-you-cant-edit-a-blank-page
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.
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