Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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