Edward Albee Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Art has an obligation to offend

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

Every monster was a man first.

Art should never try to be popular.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.