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Every monster was a man first.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Theatrical Director
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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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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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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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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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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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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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