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

— Edward Albee

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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.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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