People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
EDWARD ALBEEA play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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