Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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 don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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