Tennessee Williams Quotes

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them. It's a sickness on some level. It's a compulsion.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

I didn't get into music; music got into me.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.