“So I Keep Writing…”

“I’m very conscious of my decline in popularity, but I don’t permit it to stop me because I have the example of so many playwrights before me. I know the dreadful notices Ibsen got. And O’Neill — he had to die to make ‘Moon’ successful. And to me it has been providential to be an artist, a great act of providence that I was able to turn my borderline psychosis into creativity — my sister Rose did not manage this. So I keep writing. I am sometimes pleased with what I do — for me, that’s enough.”

Tennessee Williams, interviewed in 1981

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2 Responses to “So I Keep Writing…”

  1. Easycure says:

    And we like it too.

  2. MikeR says:

    That is a great quote.
    Popularity for artists will always be a crapshoot. All anyone really has a right to ask is to be given the opportunity to express their creative impulses.
    Anything beyond that is gravy.

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