I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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