Writing Quotes by Vicki Baum

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

— Vicki Baum

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad…

— Vicki Baum

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

— Vicki Baum

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

— Vicki Baum

A woman who is loved always has success.

— Vicki Baum

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

— Vicki Baum

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

— Vicki Baum

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

— Vicki Baum

“The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces.”

— Vicki Baum

To be a Jew is a destiny

— Vicki Baum

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

— Vicki Baum

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money…

— Vicki Baum