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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.
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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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 government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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