"Literary critic [[Arthur Quiller-Couch]] had a memorable motto: ‘**Murder your darlings.**’ This was his advice to writers who struggled with cutting cherished but redundant sentences." --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[essentialism]], [[editing-written-work]], [[short-sentences]], [[confirmation-bias]], [[cognitive-dissonance]] **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]