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.
EDWARD ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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