Well, 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 AlbeeNaturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.
Edward AlbeeTrue, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
Edward Albee