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Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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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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