Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEA play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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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.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE