Ask me Quote by Edward Albee Download Open image “People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'” — Edward Albee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask me Asks Life Long People Play Take me Theatre Writing
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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