Quote

Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'

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
Play
Compliment
Great
Plays
Essential
Essentials
Step
Necessary
Steps
Miller
Saying
Arthur

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
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
Image
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Edward Albee
Image
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Edward Albee
Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
Edward Albee
Image
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
Image
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
Edward Albee
Image
I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
Edward Albee
Image
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward Albee
Image
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
Edward Albee
Image
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
Edward Albee
Image
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
Edward Albee
Image
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
Edward Albee
Image
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Edward Albee
Image
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
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
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
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
Edward Albee
Image
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
Image
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Edward Albee
Image
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
Edward Albee