编辑编稿,如同工人做工、农民种地、作家写书一样,是件很苦很累的活儿。当然,同任何工作在完成它的过程中,自有其乐趣一样,编辑也有编辑的乐趣,依我看,乐趣之一,便是读读者来信,和读者交朋友。读作者来稿和读读者来信的心情完全不一样。大致说,稿件是写给读者的,泛指,数量多而精品少,所以做编辑久了,对如山的稿件常怀望而生畏之情。而来信则不同,它是写给编辑的,确指,大多开门见山,一语中的,情真而意切。所以读一封来信,就是结识一位朋友,见信如晤面,乐哉何如。自我奉上级之命到杂志社工作,所收信件越来越多,每天雷打不动的一项活动,便是在预定的两次时间内,亲自到传达室开启我的信箱。读者写给我的信当然要读,写给编辑部的信我也尽量翻出来看 Editing manuscripts, as workers work, peasant farming, writers, like writers, is a very hard job. Of course, editors also have the same fun as any job in completing it. Editing is also fun to edit. One of the pleasures of my life is reading letters from readers and making friends with readers. The mood of reading a manuscript and reading from a reader is completely different. Broadly speaking, manuscripts are written to the reader, refers to the number of large quantities of less and less, so do editing for a long time, the mountain manuscript often hope for fear. The letters are different, it is written for the editor, indeed, mostly straight to the top, the phrase, the truth and the intention. Therefore, reading a letter is to get to know a friend, meet him in a letter, and enjoy yourself. Self-serving family life to the magazine’s work, received more and more letters, a daily unshakeable an activity, is in the scheduled two times, personally to the mail to open my mailbox. The letter that the reader wrote to me certainly read, and the letter I wrote to the editorial department tried my best to turn it over