American playwright (1928-2016)
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
EDWARD ALBEE
interview at the time of receiving the Medal of the Academy of Achievement, Edward Albee: A Literary Companion
The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
EDWARD ALBEE
Stretching My Mind
A play is fiction -- and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 1966
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.
EDWARD ALBEE
Stretching My Mind
Every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
EDWARD ALBEE
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 1966
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
EDWARD ALBEE
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly, 1996