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“Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.”

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht was a renowned American screenwriter, born on February 28, 1894, and died on April 18, 1964. He is known for his profound influence on the Hollywood film industry and for his creation of numerous classic film scripts. more

“Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.”

Ifs Writing Jobs Stars Genius Fame Directors Critical Producers Bicycle Good Movie Spears Steering

Author:Ben Hecht

“As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.”

Way Two Book States Night United Rooms Cities Morning United States Four Objects Eating Tired Phones Bars Planes Hotel Better Ways Hotel Rooms Demented Room Service Pringles

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.”

Language Differences Race Consciousness Eating Metaphor Gender Nationality Gender Differences

Book:The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.”

Age Poet Faults Sixteen

Author:Margaret Atwood

“In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.”

Way Has Beens Heaven Deals Pay Hell Paid Credit Debt Cards One Way Payment Credit Card

Book:Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

“Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.”

Mind Literature Mirrors Maps Geography

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.”

Book Sea Notes Bottles Publishing Hurling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.”

Years Said Girl Found Good Things Ridiculous Propositions Elderly Sixteen Announcing Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Margaret Atwood

“We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.”

Used Left Silent Considering Shelves Time Left Shelf Life

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

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