Edward Albee-Courtesy of flavorwire.com
“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. So I starting writing poetry when I was six and stopped when I was twenty-six because it was getting a little better, but not terribly much. When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel—it’s a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn’t very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn’t a very good poet and I wasn’t a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.” — In an interview with The Paris Review, 1966
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Much like Lincoln, persistence pays off.
Happy birthday, Edward!
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A lesson to us all, right?
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Is this handsome man your son?
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Edward Albee is a famous American playwright. If you read my Thanksgiving post, there’s a pic of him. He looks a lot like me only he’s a foot taller!
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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So funny! His plays sure did work out.
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A strange and brilliant man, but what goes on in his head!!!
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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Happy belated birthday Edward! I am always late to the party 🙂
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He saved you a piece of cake, anyway!
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugbo
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