Arthur Quiller-Couch the source of the popular writers' adage "murder your darlings". He is mentioned briefly in "The Well of Lost Plots" by Jasper Fforde as one of the few authors with a name beginning with the letter "Q". It is Quiller-Couch who originated the saying "kill your darlings": A collected edition of Q's fiction appeared as "Tales and Romances" (30 volumes, 1928–29). Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication "The Oxford Book Of English
Charles Lee (author) amongst the group of artists who formed the Newlyn School. His "Cornish Tales" had an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. After relocating to the London suburbs, he worked as senior editor for J. M. Dent, where, owing to his talent for editing prose, he came to be known as "the man with the green pen." As well as a number of short stories he wrote several plays, journals, and musical scores and a guide book of St Mawgan:- "The Vale of Lanherne", . In collaboration with D.B. Wyndham Lewis he compiled "The Stuffed Owl", an anthology of bad (mainly inappropriate