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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.
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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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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 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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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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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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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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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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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