I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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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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