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… — 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… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be… — 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
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
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are… — 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
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important;… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger… — 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
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people… — 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
