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 - b….

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel..

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 nonw….

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different..

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity….

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a r….

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than th….

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain..

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world..

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..

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of….

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace..

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links..

I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction ma….

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age..

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the wor….

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people..

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was alw….

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, wo….

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized..