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.
EDWARD ALBEEWell, 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Every monster was a man first.
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