There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.
Edward AlbeeThere are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
Edward AlbeeAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward AlbeeA playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.
Edward Albee