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Writing Quotes by August Wilson
- The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
- Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one…
- 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…
- I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
- 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 to…
- 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.…
- If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
- 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…
- . . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold