Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes
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.
We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.
The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.