All August Wilson Quotes
- I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist.… Always Say
- Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it. Beginning
- If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. First Five
- I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it… American
- All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. All
- Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we… Attitude
- I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents… All
- . . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative… American
- So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of… Crafts
- What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use? Best
- The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and… Access
- 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 rather read. Cosby
- All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. All
- I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter… Go
- Life don't owe you nothing. Funny
- I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and… Ability
- 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 put… Artist
- Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of. Funny
- 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 other. All
- I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you… Done Learned