I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEEThere is chaos behind the civility, of course.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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