Your Darlings Quotes
- Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
- 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 extra… — Diana Athill
- Murder your darlings. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner
- Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King
- Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you. — Ilkin Santak