Tennessee Williams Quotes About Theatre

• The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

  Tennessee Williams

  Artist, Creative, Age

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

• If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Teaching, Writing, Men

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

• I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Theatre, Weakness

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

• The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

  Tennessee Williams

  Jobs, Doors, People

  Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.682, Yale University Press

• It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Theatre, Trying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

• 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.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Play, Theatre

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

• Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Theatre, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Tennessee Williams

  Failure, Night, Typewriters

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