I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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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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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 writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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