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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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Theatre

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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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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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