My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
