Great Throughts Treasury

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Edward Albee, fully Edward Franklin Albee

American Playwright best known for The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"The act of writing is an act of optimism; you would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter."

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

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. "

"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. "