Progress is a set of assumptions.
EDWARD ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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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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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, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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