There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — 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
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 Image
![“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in…” quote by Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ae/tennessee-williams-745_better-now_i-think-that-william-faulkner-and-i-each_1247777.jpg)
