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I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.

~August Wilson

Topics: Down Enough Figure Get How Just Look Out Pile Spread Stuff Up Use Write

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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

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Topics: First Got Height Involved Poet Social Theater

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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 thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

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Topics: Awards Between Calendar Every Find Focus Gets Gone Hard Month Once One Thing Other Put Something Speeches Thing Week Write You Your

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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

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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 should not forget or toss away our history.

~August Wilson

Topics: Attitude Away Forget History Insist Itself Jazz Music Our Plays Should Struggling Toss Trouble

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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

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Topics: Becomes Document Else Historical Me Move Move On Now Original Play Something Something Else Where Wrote

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I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

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Topics: About Along Characters Discover Go Going Know Piano Play Say Slowly Some Some Things Start Things Who 1970S 1930S

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I don't write for a particular audience.

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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.

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My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.

~August Wilson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: April 27th, 1945

Died: October 2nd, 2005

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