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
asked dreamers good harmless love loved needs remember revolution revolutions-and-revolutionaries
You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''
dream revolution needs
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
blocked success
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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.
critics-and-criticism drama maybe york
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
catch except goes hardly life memory moment present quick
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
inside sentenced solitary
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
longest time
Time is the longest distance between two places.
depended kindness
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
nice moving tired
I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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.