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
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.
moving adventure character
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.
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But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
character simplicity humans
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
strong character hysteria
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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.
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.
inside sentenced solitary
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
critics-and-criticism drama maybe york
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
guinea humanity laboratory pigs work
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
death
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
almost beneath completing creativity depends second survival
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.