Cases Quote by Edward Albee

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

— Edward Albee

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

— Tony Kushner

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if…

— Edward Albee

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

— Rutina Wesley

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it…

— T. S. Eliot

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

— Tom Stoppard

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming. When I'm…

— Edward Albee