There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share
