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.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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