failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for… — LILLIAN HELLMAN Copy Share Image
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share 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… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
