A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEEIf you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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 am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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