As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEEProgress is a set of assumptions.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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