Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy. His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. November 1863 – 12. May 1944
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Famous 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.”

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On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913–1914 http://www.bartleby.com/190/
Often misattributed, e.g. to Hemingway, Faulkner, and others, or shortened to 'Kill your darlings.' source http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/should-you-kill-your-babies

“Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.”

Poem The Splendid Spur http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-splendid-spur/

“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Poem Ode upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon, in Poems and Ballads, 1896

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