“It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.”— Johannes Brahms
“The ideal cutting point is the moment we Blink. That is the moment we are breaking the stream of consciousness.”— Walter Murch
“A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret of the business is to withdraw the bad and preserve the good.”— Isaac Babel
“I sometimes think that the greatest service a director can do for a playwright is to be a good editor.”— John Barton
“Montage, as I see it, is the creation of a sense or meaning not proper to the images themselves but derived exclusively from their juxtaposition.”— André Bazin
“If any word or expression is of such a nature as to raise a blush on the cheek of modesty, it is to be erased.”— Thomas Bowdler
“It is sincerely hoped, that the pains which have been taken to render this work unobjectionable, will be found to have been not ill bestowed.”— Thomas Bowdler
“Nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”— Thomas Bowdler
“An editor should have a nose for a good book, but it is even more important for him to have a good stomach, for he will have to eat many of his words.”— Cass Canfield
“I've always believed that you can't have a great publishing house without great editors.”— Cass Canfield