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I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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Every monster was a man first.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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