Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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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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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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