Get rid of your little darlings.

How do get rid of a little problem? You get a big problem.

— Mark Victor Hansen

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

— Mike Pohjola

You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt…

— Diana Athill

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

— Noel Coward

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

— Artie Lange

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

— William Faulkner

“shock troops in the assault on the last remaining constraints keeping us from going to war all the time. The little darlings were terribly…

— Rachel Maddow

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Kill your darlings.”

— Stephen King

“If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“They’re like little boys, men. Sometimes of course they’re rather naughty and you have to pretend to be angry with them. They attach so…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you.

— Ilkin Santak

“You've got to kill your darlings.”

— Andre Dubus III