America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS






