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 eight play
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
writing play rehearsal
My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
sex writing views
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.
talking addiction people
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.
humanity disgusting humans
Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
fighting howl persons
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
animal pigs monkeys
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
character thinking creating
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
desire want loser
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.
lying speech instant
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
talent get-away ability
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
people way ifs
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
ego vision flaws
Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.
beautiful giving-up people
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you