Get rid of your little darlings.
Murder your darlings.
That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.
Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows.
We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'. . . but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.
What happened to Darling’s face? (Kiara) It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn)
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
