155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

Styles in wit change so.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

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