murder your darlings

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.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

America is like a roomy cage

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.