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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Edward Albee

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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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
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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Life Myself People Play Writing
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
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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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
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.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself

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