Authors — Quotes

Tennessee Williams Quotes: 16

All good art is an indiscretion.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Time is the longest distance between two places.
The Glass Menagerie
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Camino Real
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
The Glass Menagerie
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Mendacity is a system that we live in,"declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.