Top 25 Quotes by Edward Albee

About Edward Albee

These are some quotes by American author Edward Albee Dramatist, who was born on March 12, 1928.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Edward Albee

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.

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.

Edward Albee

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Edward Albee

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Edward Albee

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.

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.

Edward Albee

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.

Edward Albee

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Edward Albee

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.

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.

Edward Albee

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.

Edward Albee

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