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.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Writing, Pieces, Crafts

  On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)

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• 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.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Mistake, Discovery, Watches

  Arthur Quiller-Couch (2016). “On The Art of Reading”, p.8, Youcanprint

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• If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Confused, Character, Language

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

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Heart, Green, England

  'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'

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• You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Art, Men, Two

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• I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Fall, Thrill, Lips

  "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.

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