Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
EDWARD ALBEEVery few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
EDWARD ALBEEI have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
EDWARD ALBEEI created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
EDWARD ALBEEArt should never try to be popular.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
EDWARD ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
EDWARD ALBEEDo you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEEDashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
EDWARD ALBEESincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
EDWARD ALBEEI am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEEYour 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 ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
EDWARD ALBEEYou’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 ALBEEFirst, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
EDWARD ALBEEInfluence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
EDWARD ALBEEFew sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEE