The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. — 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
