American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — 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… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — 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
