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 Copy Share Image
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. — Vicki Baum Copy Share
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 Copy Share
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum Copy Share
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 Copy Share
serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning. — Vicki Baum Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no… — Vicki Baum Copy Share
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the… — Vicki Baum Copy Share
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do. — Vicki Baum Copy Share
