533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

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.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.