Quote

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

Edward Albee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Littles
Little
Instruct
Writing
Responsibilities
People
Useful
Consciousness
Bits
Responsibility
Point

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
Edward Albee
Image
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Image
Every monster was a man first.
Edward Albee
Image
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
Edward Albee
Image
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
Edward Albee
Image
Art should never try to be popular.
Edward Albee
Image
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Edward Albee
Image
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Edward Albee
Image
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
Image
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
Edward Albee
Image
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
Edward Albee
Image
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee
Image
The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
Edward Albee
Image
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
Edward Albee
Image
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
Edward Albee
Image
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
Edward Albee
Image
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
Edward Albee
Image
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
Edward Albee
Image
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Edward Albee
Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee