264 Quotes by Edward Albee

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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

Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were ‘necessary.’ I will go one step further and say that Arthur’s plays are ‘essential’

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