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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

~August Wilson

Topics: Act Audience Communal Elicit Find Five Having Hundred Like May Nature Novel Novelist People Personal Read Reading Respond Response Same Same Time Solitary Thrilling Time Varied While Writes Your

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Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

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Topics: Hands Keep Moving Rewriting Writing Your

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Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.

~August Wilson

Topics: Catch Exciting Find First First Thing Home Like Love-Hate Love-Hate Relationship Miss Most Other Out People Pittsburgh Relationship Sort The First Thing Thing Times Tremendously Want Wheels

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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

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Topics: Blacks Folks Good Play Say Soon Theater White Whites

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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. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

~August Wilson

Topics: Always Artist Audience He Himself Myself Painted People Picasso Same Satisfy Say Self Think Which Work Write I Think I Write

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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

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Topics: Art Political Politics Sense Serve Someone

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I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

~August Wilson

Topics: Believe Change Effect Particularly Social Social Change Why Write Writing I Believe I Write

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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

~August Wilson

Topics: America Because Black Contained Experience Human Human Experience Within Write I Write

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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 branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

~August Wilson

Topics: Book Books Branch Carnegie Constraints Curriculum Drop Dropped Each Each Morning Eight Felt Go Had House Leave Liberated Library Life Main Months Morning Oakland One Book Out School Suddenly Through Where World Would

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Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

~August Wilson

Topics: About America Blacks Blues Book Forget History How Know Our Shame Slavery Stigma Want Who You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: April 27th, 1945

Died: October 2nd, 2005

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