Way Quotes by Edward Albee

9 Way quotes by Edward Albee

Edward Albee’s nine lines on Way cut straight to the heart of his theatrical insight. Though few, they echo his knack for exposing human contradictions and the choices that shape our lives.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

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

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

Image

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Edward Albee

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Other authors on Way

More by Edward Albee

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Edward Albee

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

Image

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Edward Albee

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

Image

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Edward Albee

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

Image

“Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor.”

Edward Albee

Image

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Edward Albee

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

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

Image

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Edward Albee

Image

Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Edward Albee

Image

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And…

Edward Albee

Image

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Edward Albee

Image

Art should never try to be popular.

Edward Albee

Image