In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

My lord Apollo, single out the guilty ones,
and in your customary way, destroy them all.

I write to murder the selves that whisper untruths to me.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

If there is a decree from Ranee [Rajya Laxmi], we must kill each other.

Then Kill me at once!

[Whoever did this] must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us.

The professional knows when he has fallen short of his own standards. He will murder his darlings without hesitation, if that's what it takes to stay true to the goddess and to his own expectations of excellence.

If you catch terrorists, you have to simply kill them.