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
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
food drinking believe
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
weakness helping helpless
The helpless can't help the helpless.
writing compulsion stills
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
block writing thinking
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.