Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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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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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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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