When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do… — 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
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
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
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't… — 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 do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way… — 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
