How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“The whole time I was growing up...living in this house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. ...It would wrap around… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I started writing - I began my career at the age of 20, on April 1st, 1965, when... My sister was going… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because… — August Wilson Copy Share
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and… — August Wilson Copy Share
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what… — August Wilson Copy Share
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to… — August Wilson Copy Share
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main… — August Wilson Copy Share
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order… — August Wilson Copy Share
“Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...cause I like you? It's my job. It's my responsibility!... Not cause I like… — August Wilson Copy Share
“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after… — August Wilson Copy Share
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a… — August Wilson Copy Share
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the… — August Wilson Copy Share
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no… — August Wilson Copy Share
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and… — August Wilson Copy Share
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write. — August Wilson Copy Share
“Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you,” — August Wilson Copy Share
