'If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally new writing, obey it - wholeheartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.'
Quotes by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it ... and delete it before sending your manuscript to the press.'