Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
EDWARD ALBEE
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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 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.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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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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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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