The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
EDWARD ALBEECreativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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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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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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