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Edward Albee [1928-2016] American

Rank: 101
Dramatist, Playwright

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and A Delicate Balance.

Truth, Humor

Quote	Tags	Rank
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.		101
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.	Truth	102
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.		103
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.		104
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.	Truth	105
Your 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.		106
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.		107
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.		108
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.	Humor	109
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.		110
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.		111
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.		112
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.		113
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.		114
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.		115
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.		116
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.		117
Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.		118
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.		119
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.		120
That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.		121
Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.		122
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.		123
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.		124
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.		125

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