I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that… — 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
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or… — 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
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems… — 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
