Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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Art should never try to be popular.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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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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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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