Lillian Hellman Quotes

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Lillian Hellman

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : June 20, 1905

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

Lillian Hellman

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

Lillian Hellman

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 the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Lillian Hellman

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