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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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