Seems Quotes by Edward Albee

11 Seems quotes by Edward Albee

Albee’s theatrical eye spots the absurdity in everyday façades, each captured in a succinct line. This set of eleven offers a compact, witty probe into how we construct meaning.

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A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.…

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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought…

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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems…

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I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of…

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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go…

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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…

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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…

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If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about…

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When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still…

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In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.…

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I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that…

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Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

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“Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor.”

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I write to find out what I'm talking about.

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I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine…

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The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this…

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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

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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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