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
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
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.