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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Edward Albee

Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
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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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
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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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

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