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
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
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking,… — 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 don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of… — 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
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — 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
