At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS






