Edward Albee quotes - page 2

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union. (Edward Albee)
You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. View quote
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What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it. View quote
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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. View quote
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic. View quote
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. View quote
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. View quote
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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. View quote
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The gods too are fond of a joke. View quote
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Kill that dog with kindness just kill him. View quote
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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. (Edward Albee)
I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing - and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga - it will all equal itself out... You can't involve yourself with the vicissitudes of fashion or critical response. View quote
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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. Some of them are so busy trying to mold the public taste according to the limits of their perceptions, and others are so busy reflecting what they consider to be the public taste - that view limited again by their perception. You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid - but most people don't take the trouble. View quote
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