Quote

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

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
Write
Play
Writing
Anywhere
Years
Six
Think
Usually
Thinking
Months
Year
Half

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Edward Albee
Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
Edward Albee
Image
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
Edward Albee
Image
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
Edward Albee
Image
A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
Edward Albee
Image
Every monster was a man first.
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
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
Edward Albee
Image
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Edward Albee
Image
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Edward Albee
Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
Edward Albee
Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Edward Albee
Image
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Edward Albee
Image
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Edward Albee