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
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — 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
You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever.… — 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
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And… — 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
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 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
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop. — 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
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives… — 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
