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Your darlings may not deserve to die
When Arthur Quiller-Couch lectured on the art of writing at Cambridge in 1914, he uttered a phrase repeated frequently among authors today. Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before … Continue reading
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Tagged Kill your darlings, murder your darlings, Quiller-Couch, Stephen King
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