“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
“It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.”— Johannes Brahms
“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but has escaped the terrible desire to write.”— Bennett Cerf
“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
“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
“The thing that makes a great newspaper is the number of stories it chooses not to print.”— Bill Keller