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by CG FEWSTON October 2, 2017

Non-Fiction Pictures

The Sense of Style (2014) by Steven Pinker & the Importance of Precise Language

Unlike hundreds of other writers and scholars, Pinker does correctly attribute (the oft-misattributed phrase) “Murder your darlings” to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch found in On the Art of Writing.

by CG FEWSTON July 28, 2015

Fiction Non-Fiction

On the Art of Writing (1916) by Arthur Quiller-Couch & the Dark Age of Lord Coke

“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.”