As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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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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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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