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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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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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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
Edward Albee
