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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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