Bill Walsh Editor Quotations

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.