August Wilson Quotes

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

- August Wilson

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I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed. - August Wilson

I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things. - August Wilson