Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEEI write to find out what I’m talking about.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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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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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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The 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.
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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 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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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