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Writing Quotes by Lillian Hellman
- The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent…
- 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 I've had satisfaction…
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
- Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
- Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from…
- They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov