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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 Albee

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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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
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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Life Myself People Play Writing
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
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.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
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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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
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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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing

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.

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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.

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