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
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
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize 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
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 don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the… — 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