Emma > Emma's Quotes

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
― Tennessee Williams

“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
― Tennessee Williams

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of getting, or achieving, anything that I long for will always be gravely reduced by the interminable existence of that block.”
― Tennessee Williams

“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending