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
fire
Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!
faithful
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
girl boys discovery
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.
new-york cities san-francisco
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
angel might demon
Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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.