“More and more of our reviewers are complaining that too many elementary mistakes — clichés, faulty grammar, even errors of fact — are finding their way into finished books. … Some readers — and probably a lot more authors — may shrug and say, so what? Isn’t editing an extra, and a pretty artificial one to boot: lofty standards imposed upon manuscripts by prissy librarian types who love to justify their existence by catching errors? But editing, I believe, is something we all do, a fundamental human tendency.”