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When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions — that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that it's worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride. That's all.

— Edward Albee Conversations with Edward Albee (1988)

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I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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