Creative Quotations from . . .
Edward Albee
(1928-____) born on Mar 12
US dramatist. "He is known for plays critiquing American society, "The Zoo Story," 1960 and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," 1962."
 
   
F
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."

R
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
A
"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."
N
"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do."
K
"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "On his play "Tiny Alice," quoted in "Observer (London)," 5 Apr 1965."
R: ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," 1962."
A: "In "Saturday Review," 4 May 1966."
N: "On his play "Tiny Alice," quoted in "Observer (London)," 5 Apr 1965."
K: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."



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