Once an author becomes famous, their editors stop working. So many case in points, but the most famous case is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that book should have been a quarter longer. My mom complains that suddenly Outlander descriptions have become unbearable. It's all about how famous you are. But 19th century literature is at it's best when it's not wordy: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "