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
giving-up world resistance
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
writing alive posthumous
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
nature stuff vacuums
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
character play theatre
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
family reality enthusiasm-for-life
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
drama speech natural
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
god meaningful work
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
love dream people
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
god atheism mythology
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
teaching writing men
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
character writing desire
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
life reality grace
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
funny life motivational
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
artist creative age
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.