Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — 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
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
The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — 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 Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
