Lillian Hellman Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?