Lillian Hellman

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #give #had #i #listen

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#end #habits #hopes #out #start

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#even #good #lives #lose #minute

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#lonelier #lonely #make #other #people

My father was often angry when I was most like him. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#father #him #i #like #most

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#believes #carriage #chamber #judge #nobody

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#ever #first #good #hope #hoped

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#defend #injustice #people #since #them

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#bible #earth #eat #like #other

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 themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #fancy #give #had #i