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Edward Albee Quotes

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.

Edward Albee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016

Topics

Good Truth Reality Accomplish Bad

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartner

Change Police Constitution Person

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

Angela Bassett

Work Good Money School Good Work

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

Michael Cimino

Nature Writing Solitary Occupation

We strive for greatness.

Simone Biles

Greatness Strive

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

Rob Brydon

Life Children Me Think You Want

It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.

Michelle Alexander

Life Rest You Three Trash Knowing

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

Michael Morpurgo

Change War People Want Understand

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

Mira Nair

Winter Dress Me American Learn Way

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Luc Besson

Good Feel You Bad Know Sometimes

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Lou Barlow

Myself Painting Write First Without

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

Louis Dudek

Intelligence Words Small Fake Write

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner

Lawyers Unique Phone Know Crime Out