The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
EDWARD ALBEEPeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
More Edward Albee Quotes
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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