Arthur Quiller-Couch
“Pay your sacrifice to the Graces—and to clarity first among the Graces.”
“Avoid excess: art's true maxim.”
“The business of writing demands two—the author and the reader.”
“Order and arrangement are duties we owe to those who honor us with their attention.”
“Clarity is courtesy to the reader.”
“Literature is a living art; therefore it must be personal and of its essence personal.”
“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.”
“Style is not—can never be—extraneous Ornament.”