One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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