The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. — 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
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number. — 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
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
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so… — 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
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to… — 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
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
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place… — 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
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