Creative Quotations from Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Tennessee Williams
(1911-1983) born on Mar 26

US dramatist, author. He won Pulitzers for "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1947 and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," 1955.

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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
R:	In "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," Preface by William Inge, 1958.
A:	The Gipsy, in "Camino Real," block 12, 1953.
N:	In "Press" (Pittsburgh), 30 May 1960.
K:	"Camino Real," Afterword, 1953.