Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEE
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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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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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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