By Anna Vodicka In a famous University of Cambridge lecture, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch instructed young writers: “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.” It was 1914, but the advice was ancient, the same artistic restraint Horace […]

Keep Your Darlings