Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
EDWARD ALBEESincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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