Authors Quote by Mary McCarthy

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

— Mary McCarthy

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.

— Rosemary Mahoney

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

— Alec Baldwin

“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie]…

— Susan Faludi

“Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like…

— Sylvain Reynard

I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends…

— Alden Ehrenreich

If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred…

— Lillian Hellman

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write…

— Candace Camp

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee