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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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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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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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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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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