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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes about writing

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of... Tennessee Williams
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. Tennessee Williams
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm..."
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one..."
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man..."
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams

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