Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
EDWARD ALBEEA writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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