Edward Albee Quotes

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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.
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
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.
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.
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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.
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
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Edward Albee
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12 March, 1928
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16 September, 2016
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