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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
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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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