Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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