If 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.
More Quotes by Lillian Hellman
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
People change and forget to tell each other.