I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEEArt should never try to be popular.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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 lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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