As Good As It Could Possibly Be
D. J. Taylor:
The editor was a symbol of this growing suspicion that every book a firm published had to be as good as it could possibly be, and that pains were worth taking over a promising work by a raw talent that might need knocking into shape before it could be placed in hard covers and sent out to the reviewers.
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Link: Wielding the Blue Pencil, by D. J. Taylor, Portico