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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.
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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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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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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
Edward Albee
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
