Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee IIIis an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His works are often considered as well-crafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
Edward Albee quotes about
Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Progress is a set of assumptions.