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
writing theatre found
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
failure night typewriters
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.
giving bird advice
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.
cells duration solitary
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
love thinking remember
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
lying drunk together
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...
believe desperate truth-is
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
drinking light alcohol
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
love-you someone-you-love ifs
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.
soul aristocracy passionate
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
cages cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof maggie
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
thinking people looks
People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
character simplicity humans
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
important fifty telling-the-truth
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II