Attention Quote by Edward Albee

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

— Edward Albee

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work…

— Edward Albee

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience…

— Terence Rattigan

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,…

— Lanford Wilson

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's…

— Wallace Shawn

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being…

— Edward Albee

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman