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
love-you someone-you-love ifs
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.
strength rocks mountain
The mountain violets break the rocks.
drinking light alcohol
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
giving bird advice
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.
moving people menagerie
People go to the movies instead of moving.
writing alive posthumous
I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
writing goes-on world
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
sorrow superficial show-me
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
home mean thinking
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
love letters four
Just another four-letter word.
character simplicity humans
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
children block names
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
writing lines
I talk out the lines as I write them.
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.