Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
EDWARD ALBEEEvery monster was a man first.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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