When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe name of a person you love is more than language.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS