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Ben Hecht Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Art Giving Heart Love Writing

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

Australia, Bird, Kind

"Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Moving, Fate, People

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Art, Fall, Writing

Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Yellowstone, Offering, Chicago

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