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
As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people… — Edward Albee Copy Share 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… — 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
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
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — 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 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
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten… — 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
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