Quote

Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting 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
Fall
Fine
Final
Something
Views
Finals
Things
Stand
Concepts
Results
Result
Lines
Writers
Rather
Line
Distorting
Upon
View
Pointing
Success
Depends
Drawn

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
Edward Albee
Image
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
Edward Albee
Image
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Edward Albee
Image
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
Image
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
Edward Albee
Image
A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
Edward Albee
Image
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
Edward Albee
Image
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
Edward Albee
Image
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
Edward Albee
Image
Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
Edward Albee
Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
Edward Albee
Image
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Image
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
Edward Albee
Image
The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
Edward Albee