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 ALBEE
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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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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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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