Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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