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.
Tennessee Williams
More from: Tennessee Williams
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. -
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? -
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock. -
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. -
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
More quotes by Tennessee Williams
- We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- All good art is an indiscretion.
- Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.