533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

I talk out the lines as I write them.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light....

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you