Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian HellmanIf 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 HellmanIf I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman