Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
EDWARD ALBEEAnything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Art should never try to be popular.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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