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
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
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
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
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
Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite… — 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
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share
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 Copy Share
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. — Edward Albee Copy Share
