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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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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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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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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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.
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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.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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