Darling Quote by William Faulkner Download Open image “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” — William Faulkner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darling Writing
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Kill all your darlings. And then kill some who aren't your darlings, just for good measure. (My paraphrasing/re-thinking of Faulkner's famous quote.)” — Dayanara Ryelle Copy Share Image
“It’s always easier to kill someone else’s darlings than it is to kill your own.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with writers – it’s impossible for us to forget the lovers we still have romance novels written inside of us for… — Christina Hart Copy Share Image
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls… — Moses Copy Share Image
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.” — Lydia Larue Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?" "Meant every word." A little light danced in his eyes and he… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
It's a brutal world out there. If you consider the case of superstar Rajesh Khanna, he was a darling of the masses in his… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
