Tennessee Williams Quotes

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

I would like to write a play.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.