197 Quotes by August Wilson

Sometimes you’re lucky and you don’t even know it.

You can’t visit the sins of the father upon the child.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs – the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

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.

TROY: Death ain’t nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can’t tell me nothing about death. death ain’t nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I’ll do to that! Lookee here, Bono... am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist high, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it... and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?

Suffice it to say, I’m not poor.

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 his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.

Love don’t know no age and it don’t know no experience.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.