Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.
Edward AlbeeWriting has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
Edward AlbeeVery few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
Edward AlbeeWell, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
Edward AlbeeThere's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that have less to do with his artistic work than have to do with the critical and aesthetic environment - that perhaps he does have to worry about whether or not he is writing too fast. But then also, perhaps he should worry about getting as many plays on as possible before the inevitable ax falls.
Edward Albee