A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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