Tennessee Williams Quotes

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Tennessee Williams

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

Tennessee Williams

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

My places were emotional, primarily. I wrote of locales in which I had lived, or in which I imagined I could live, but the topography was primal and sexual and terminal. It bore no distinct architecture or design or dialect. It was merely human and in peril, which is to say universal. But on Royal and Coliseum and Vista--streets I cannot relinquish--I found my places and I dreamed a narrative. Can I go there and find it again?"--Tennessee Williams

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams