Kill Your Darlings Quotes & Sayings

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

Kill your darlings. — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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