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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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.'
Edward Albee
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
Edward Albee
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee
A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
Edward Albee
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
Edward Albee
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Edward Albee
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
