Tennessee Williams Believe Quotations

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.