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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Edward Albee

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
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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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
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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Action Definition Oneself Play
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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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Life Myself People Play Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop

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