All 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.”
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
“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.”

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