(from the Guardian, 9/17.)

I failed as a poet, a novelist, a short-story writer and as an essayist, but I was determined to be a writer. So I began writing plays. – in a Guardian interview in 2010

We all insist – hope? – that we haven’t written our best works yet, and we all harbour deep, almost religious faith, in our most dismissed or despised efforts. – in a Guardian interview in 2007

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music – in a Paris Review interview in 1966

Most critics can’t tell me if anything is good. – in a Guardian interview in 2010

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/17/edward-albee-quotes-life-and-death

(Photo: UK Telegraph)