Quote

Writers talk too much.

Lillian Hellman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Writers
Talk
Much

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Image
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Lillian Hellman
Image
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Image
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
Image
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Image
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
Image
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
Image
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Styles in wit change so.
Lillian Hellman
Image
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
Image
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.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
Image
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
Image
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman