A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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 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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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