Lillian Hellman

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

“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”

“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”

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

“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”

“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”

“God forgives those who invent what they need.”