Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw (in the window of Gleebooks in Sydney) - a publisher in an extravagant office saying to a humble author "Give me a novel of 2

Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw (in the window of Gleebooks in Sydney) - a publisher in an extravagant office saying to a humble author "Give me a novel of 200,000 words that oversteps the bounds of common decency." (something like that, can't find it online now)