"A participant at a writing workshop once told me that she labels her folder of rejected sentences and paragraphs “I Still Love You,” acknowledging the loss and guilt that authors can feel when they usher their fondest creations off the dance floor—all that care and attention we lavished on their ball gowns and tuxedoes!—even while refusing to buy into Arthur Quiller-Couch’s macabre imagery of murdered darlings." %% #note/quote | #on/writing | #on/editing %% # Source: Sword, Helen. Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (p. 191). (Function). Kindle Edition. ."