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“I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.”

Quote by Edward Albee

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

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Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

This collection brings together a selection of essays written by Edward Albee, a prominent figure in American theater. The essays delve into Albee's personal reflections on his work, the craft of playwriting, and the broader cultural landscape of theater. The volume offers insights into Albee's creative mind and his approach to the art of storytelling. more

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American playwright, known for his unique dramatic style and profound exploration of modern family relationships. Edward Albee's works often involve complex interpersonal relationships and moral dilemmas, and his plays hold a significant place in 20th-century American theater. more

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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 I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”

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Author:Edward Albee

“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”

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Author:Edward Albee

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.”

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Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.”

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Book:Tiny Alice

Source: Tiny Alice

“When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.”

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Book:The Collected Plays of Edward Albee

Source: The Collected Plays of Edward Albee

“I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.”

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Author:Edward Albee

“I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.”

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Author:Edward Albee