Kill Your Darlings Quotes

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

Mike Pohjola

#2. Kill your darlings.

Stephen King

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

Andre Dubus III

#4. 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

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

Stephen King

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

William Faulkner

#7. 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

#8. From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.

Lisa Samson

#9. The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy.

Malti Bhojwani

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

June Casagrande

#11. 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

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

William Faulkner

#13. Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

Lorii Myers

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

William Faulkner

#15. BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!

Steve Maraboli

#16. I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

Jade Hassoune

#17. The creative process isn't easy, even for chocolate-fountain people. It's more like a wobbly, drunken journey down a very steep and scary hill, not knowing if there's a sheer cliff at the end of it all. But it's worth the journey, I promise.

Felicia Day

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

Stephen King

#19. A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich.

Seth Godin