Quotes from Bill F. Walsh

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

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.