> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts > > Tom C. wrote: > > >One should be their own severest critic prior to displaying the work > to others. > > "Murder your darlings" - Arthur Quiller-Couch*, on how ruthless you > should be in editing your own work. He was talking about writing but it > applies to all art forms. > > > * I learned this saying from my mum, an English professor. She never > mentioned who said it so I had to do a quick web search just now.
What a strange coincidence - the poem 'Say not the struggle nought availeth' was bouncing around in my skull, so I googled it and found that it's one of Quiller-Couch's. It's the sort of thing they used to read to us after prep at school and which I thought I was ignoring, but which has stuck in there. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
