Famous quotes containing the words williams, british, writer and/or novels:
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
—Tennessee Williams (19141983)
“Its like the Beatles coming together againlets hope they dont go on a world tour.”
—Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)
“I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction, for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)