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.
Source: In Saturday Review, 4 May 1966.
-- Edward Albee, (Mar 12 1928-2016), US dramatist; He is known for plays critiquing American society, The Zoo Story, 1960 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962.