Letters of Note: Mark Twain on proofreaders

Conceive of this tumble-bug interesting himself in my punctuation — which is none of business & with which he has nothing to do — & then instead of correcting mis-spelling, which is in his degraded line, striking a mark under the word & silently confessing that he doesn’t know what the hell to do with it! The damned half-developed foetus!

Writers have always been at war with Editorial.