Interesting Quote by Lillian Hellman Download Open image “Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.” — Lillian Hellman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interesting Interesting people Mean People Sarcastic Writing
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and… — Julianna Baggott 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
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what… — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
