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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
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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