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
banner bohemia discretion
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
space attempting lost
attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
theatre weakness stage
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
death animal giving
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
art fleeting moments
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
beautiful letting-go giving-up
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
art good-art art-is
All good art is an indiscretion.
believe self doubt
I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
cat long victory
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...
love-is names language
The name of a person you love is more than language.
adventure kind security
Security is a kind of death.
writing broken trying
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
taken heart years
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
names mirrors fiction
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath