Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
EDWARD ALBEEIt 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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 am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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