Quotes by Arthur Quiller-Couch

“murder your darlings”

“If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty b...”

“We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.”

“His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was justa man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But hisdiscourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it went away n...”

“The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.”