Kill All Your Darlings Quotes

#1. It's always easier to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own.

Stephen King

#2. 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

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

Mike Pohjola

#4. This is what he does to me. Open up the windows of my soul and push me out. Fly, dammit, fly!

Leylah Attar

#5. In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

William Faulkner

#6. Kill your darlings.

Stephen King

#7. Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.

William Faulkner

#8. You've got to kill your darlings.

Andre Dubus III

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

June Casagrande

#12. Great towers take time to construct.

Herman Melville

#13. Honesty is the best policy. It's also the most profitable.

Michael J. Sandel

#14. Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Harold Holzer

#15. Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.

Stephen King

#16. Everyone to their own. But a nice, warm, friendly spanking never did anyone any harm.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. In writing, you must kill your darlings.

William Faulkner