533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

Luck is believing you're lucky.

You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

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.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!