Edward Albee Messages

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.