I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
EDWARD ALBEE
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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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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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