I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
EDWARD ALBEEMusical beds is the faculty sport around here.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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