Playwright Edward Albee's early popular one-act plays, including The Zoo Story (1959), established him as a critic of American values. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of his generation for his plays including 'The Zoo Story' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Who Was Edward Albee? Of course, there are the little dolls you stick pins in privately.” You just have to make the assumption you're doing good work and go on doing it. If you know that, you can never be owned by public opinion or critical response. I just didn't feel that I belonged.” “.there is not always a great relationship between popularity and excellence. When I was told that I was adopted I remember being rather relieved. I had the terrible fear that maybe I was. Many kids when they're growing up have the fear that maybe they're not the natural children. Life is too short to take the middle ground.” “What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it.” “If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty-five or thirty years-I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers-it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them then it's time to knock them down again.” “I think you should always be surprised by awards and prizes, since you're always surprised when you don't get them.” “I learned that I was adopted when I was five or so, and I wasn't surprised. If people want to kid themselves, it's important that they know that they're kidding themselves.
“I don't mind people having false illusions as long as they know that they're false.
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