Oscar Wilde is credited with the following quote: "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Source: Definitive analysis of Wilde’s comma remark: http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/took-out-a-comma.html I try, I really do. But as I read all the rules for when, how, …
“Murder Your Darlings”
"Murder Your Darlings,"(On Style, chapter 12) is a quote from Arthur Quiller-Couch's series of published lectures (On the Art of Writing, 1916) He encouraged writer's to, "...perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it--wholeheartedly--and delete it before sending your manuscript to press..." He failed to mention, however, that tapping the delete button would require Hershey Kiss therapy for at least a …
Phyllis A. Still 