Quotes By Edward Albee
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee