There are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEGood writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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