If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts.… — 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
If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be… — 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
By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — 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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