Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEE
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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 only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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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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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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