Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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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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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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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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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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