“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. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at night. In the morning it springs up again from its ashes and crows like a happy rooster. It is never as bad as you think, it is never as good. It is somewhere in between, and success or failure depends on which end of your emotional gamut concerning its value it approaches more closely. But it is much more likely to be good if you think it is wonderful while you are writing the first draft. An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.”
“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. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at night. In the morning it springs up again from its ashes and crows like a happy rooster. It is never as bad as you think, it is never as good. It is somewhere in between, and success or failure depends on which end of your emotional gamut concerning its value it approaches more closely. But it is much more likely to be good if you think it is wonderful while you are writing the first draft. An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.”
Tennessee Williams
“All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog”
James Grissom“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
Tennessee Williams“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”
Tennessee Williams“Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams”
James Grissom“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois”
Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire“...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...”
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays“The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
Tennessee Williams“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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