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Tennessee Williams Quotes

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected Picture Quote #1

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life Picture Quote #1

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of Picture Quote #1

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets Picture Quote #1

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass Picture Quote #1

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable Picture Quote #1

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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing Picture Quote #1

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you’ve lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated Picture Quote #1

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That’s what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are Picture Quote #1

I don’t mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don’t regard a home as a... well, as a place, a building... a house... of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can... well, nest Picture Quote #1

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness Picture Quote #1

There’s no American playwright after 1945 who wasn’t profoundly affected - who didn’t have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams Picture Quote #1

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I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me Picture Quote #1

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An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected (Tennessee Williams Quotes) Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life (Tennessee Williams Quotes) You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of (Tennessee Williams Quotes) If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass (Tennessee Williams Quotes) It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable (Tennessee Williams Quotes) And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing (Tennessee Williams Quotes) Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you’ve lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated (Tennessee Williams Quotes) People are not so dreadful when you know them. That’s what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I don’t mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don’t regard a home as a... well, as a place, a building... a house... of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can... well, nest (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness (Tennessee Williams Quotes) There’s no American playwright after 1945 who wasn’t profoundly affected - who didn’t have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me (Tennessee Williams Quotes)

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