Kill The Darlings Quotes & Sayings

I've been through a bad time, Bertie, these last weeks. The sun ceased to shine - "
"That's curious. We've had gorgeous weather in London."
"The birds ceased to sing."
"What birds?"
"What the devil does it matter what birds?" said young BIngo, with some asperity. "Any birds. The birds round about here. You don't expect me to specify them by their pet names, do you? I tell you, Bertie, it hit me hard at first, very hard."
"What hit you?" I simply couldn't follow the blighter.
"Charlotte's calculated callousness. — P.G. Wodehouse

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party. — Newt Gingrich

You've got to kill your darlings. — Andre Dubus III

Kill your darlings. — Stephen King

Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons. — Thomm Quackenbush

And you know what? You don't get to say it's not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be - this is mine. I'm supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it. — Becky Albertalli

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation. — Abraham Isaac Kook

It's always easier to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own. — Stephen King

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government. — George Allen

I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad. — Maya Forbes

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet. — Allen Ginsberg

He needed to "kill his darlings" - Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work. — June Casagrande

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. — Shawn Johnson

The advice to "kill your darlings" has been attributed to various authors across the various galaxies... and Mister Heist hated them all.
Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about?
Better to kill everything in their writing they DON'T love as much.
Until only the darlings remain. — Brian K. Vaughan

However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night we sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing. — John Le Carre

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular. — Vint Cerf

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. — Thomas Dolby

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC. — Frederick W. Smith

The pedal is the soul of the piano. — Anton Rubinstein

Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings. — William Faulkner

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings' ... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it. — Mike Pohjola

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do. — George J. Mitchell

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore. — Autumn Reeser

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes. — David Ayer

In writing, you must kill your darlings. — William Faulkner