Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
EDWARD ALBEEWell, 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Every monster was a man first.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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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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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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