We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I…

“You've got to kill your darlings.”

— Andre Dubus III

“Kill your darlings.”

— Stephen King

Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing. You don't…

— Chuck Wendig

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…

— David Ayer

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…

— Maya Forbes

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

— Stephen King

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

— William Faulkner

“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as…

— Marge Piercy

I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the…

— Rachel Kushner

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

— Sarah Ruhl

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's…

— Tony D'Souza

“That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

It was her way of saying, "You should kill yourself.

— Julie Anne Peters

“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

— Cormega