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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.

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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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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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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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