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.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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