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
friendship doe separation
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
prayer heart cages
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
writing reality age
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
too-much visiting gave-up
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
truth honesty people
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
dream revolution needs
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
funny humor world-suffering
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
writing trying theatre
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
magic fleeting eternity
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
inspirational motivational success
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
ruins matter no-matter-what
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
jobs doors office
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
redemption hell feels
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
teaching writing men
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.