Edward Albee Quotes
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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 than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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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 the opposite.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Q: Do you find quite a difference between the audience at large and the critics as a group? A: Well, one is a group of human beings, one is not.
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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
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I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.