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.
EDWARD ALBEEThe characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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