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August Wilson Quotes
«I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than if I'm there in the rehearsal room doing it. It's kind of hard to explain, but if you're tossed into the fire at any particular moment, then you are going to write something different than you will in another particular moment. And that is from day to day.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expected to become some sociologist. I have to speak to the condition of black America. My preference would be: Let's talk about theater. Let's talk about art. The fact that I am black is self-evident.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«I feel sort of embarrassed I don't go to plays, but I can't keep the characters straight. I feel I should be somewhere else.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry out their purchases without a bag. If my mother had informed us of these things, it might have lessened her authoritarian presence in the world. Or, she might have come home one day to find me with hundreds of paper bags that I might have stolen somewhere.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)