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

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#Writing Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.”
“All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.”
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.”

Source : "'Twilight' Tuesday: Nikki Reed Hopes to Make Us Understand What's Beneath Rosalie's Beautiful, Hard Exterior". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2008.
“You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.”
“In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.”
“No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend....”

Source : Dion Fortune (2017). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.78, Youcanprint
“I like where I live here, in London.”
“I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphorical language in painting, and to create something that was more indexical. And what I mean by that is that when you go to the library there's an index card that refers to a book that's actual and real in the world. So that index relates to something real.”

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