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Arthur Quiller-Couch

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November 21, 1863

died

May 12, 1944

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900" (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, its sequel, Q's Legacy, and the putatively fictional Horace Rumpole via John Mortimer, his literary amanuensis.

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Books by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Average rating: 3.87 · 448 ratings · 79 reviews · 180 distinct works

	The Oxford Book Of English Verse, 1250 1918 4.39 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1908 — 15 editions	My rating:
	On The Art Of Reading 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1920 — 9 editions	My rating:
	On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1916 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Beauty and the beast: And other classic fairy tales from the old French 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Book of Ballads 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1910 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1910 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Book Of English Prose 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1925	My rating:
	The Astonishing History of Troy Town 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1888 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Paul Lowe 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Arthur Quiller-Couch

“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 by specialising, you produce a brain bulging out inordinately on one side, on the other cut flat down and mostly paralytic at that: and in short so long as I hold that the Creator has an idea of a man, so long shall I be sure that no uneven specialist realises it. The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.... but we may agree that, in reading, it is not quantity so much that tells, as quality and thoroughness of digestion.”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch

tags: generalist , reading , specialist , thinking

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“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.”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch

tags: improvement , mistakes

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“murder your darlings”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch

tags: writing

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