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.
EDWARD ALBEEPeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Every monster was a man first.
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