Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
Leo Calvin Rostenwas an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 April 1908
CountryUnited States of America
games play machines
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
baby dog hate
The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
deception acting actors
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
beautiful wisdom attitude
It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.
growing-up inspiration waiting
The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait
women cooking noir
Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
ambiguous
Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
hard-work thinking harder
Thinking is harder work than hard work.
people curiosity idle
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
communication humor play
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
enjoy enjoyment ifs
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
want different understood
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
communication writing needs
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
writing story-writers helping
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.