As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEE
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.
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 writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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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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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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 are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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