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.
EDWARD ALBEEPeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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