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
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
Art has an obligation to offend
Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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.
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.
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.