Edward Albee Quotes
- You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
- Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
- Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish…
- One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather…
- I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
- Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
- The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
- Art has an obligation to offend
- A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
- Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen…
- The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension…
- Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
- The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.
- A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
- What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
- The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
- I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're…
- Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.
- If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
- All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think…