Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — 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
I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have… — 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
Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — 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
