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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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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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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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