Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams IIIwas an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 March 1911
CountryUnited States of America
creativity creative creative-work
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
running light blue
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light....
broken earth descending
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?
giving people magic
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!
love letters four
Just another four-letter word.
success congratulations artist
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
father home cycling
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
strength rocks mountain
The mountain violets break the rocks.
youth wanton candle
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
women fifty illusion
A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
real two levels
We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
marriage way faces
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
heart people littles
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts...
brother tongue dangerous
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.