The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
EDWARD ALBEEAs a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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.
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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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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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 think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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 write to find out what I’m talking 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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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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