Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee Copy Share
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this… — Edward Albee Copy Share
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And… — Edward Albee Copy Share
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — Edward Albee Copy Share
