Sub-editor Pillows

What Editors Do

'A sub editor would have fixed that. . . Rubbish. . . It is perfect. . . you are perfect.'

"These days I do a little sub-editing on the side too!"

Editor reasures subscriber that he will get an obituary

'They're not censors... just sub-editors.'

'He's counting how many words 'whom' with an 'm'. His record is six hundred and twenty nine.'

"Get the story and get it write."

Museum

"It's always LAST MONTH with you isn't it? The 31st was YESTERDAY, so say so!"

"Stop using the word NARRATIVE! We write stories!!"

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Copycats

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Squeezing the Free Press.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

Campaign for Plain English

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Thru versus Through Traffic

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

First Novels.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

Punctuation Police

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."