155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

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

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

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