The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.
Ben HechtA man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
Ben HechtFor many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Ben HechtPeople's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Ben Hecht