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.

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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26 1911 – February 25 1983) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories novels poetry essays screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid-1930s until his death in 1983 and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage.