Vicki Baum
Vicki Baum
HedwigBaumwas an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 broadway musical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 January 1888
CountryUnited States of America
moving men doe
He who does not move with the times is a dead man
reality should contact
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.
feelings pity
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
night men worry
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
children writing might
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
A woman who is loved always has success.
life time america
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
knowing two hollywood
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
people speak hunger
People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
cities squares house
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.
running children parent
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.
loyalty giving-up food
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
nature dirty cat
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.
loss filling-up lasts
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...