K I L L . Y O U R . D A R L I N G S

This is the advice that all writers are given. Cut the parts of a work that are great in themselves but which unbalance the work as a whole.

But I've decided to give some of these dead lines, paragraphs and chapters, another life - an afterlife. Here are some writers' darlings.

A L A I N . D E . B O T T O N : W H Y . D O . W E . R E A D ?

D A R E N . K I N G : A I R B A G

G E O F F . D Y E R : P A R I S , T R A N C E

M A T T . T H O R N E : E I G H T . M I N U T E S . I D L E

N I C H O L A S . B L I N C O E : G A M E . T H E O R Y

S C A R L E T T . T H O M A S : B R I G H T . Y O U N G . T H I N G S

T O B Y . L I T T : D E A D K I D S O N G S