Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond. — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat. — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
“As we dwell here between two mysteries, of a soul within and an ordered Universe without, so among us are granted to dwell certain… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
“His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was just a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
