Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.