Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEEVery few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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 think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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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 write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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 play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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