197 Quotes by August Wilson

It's not like poker: You can't throw your hand in. I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

I need a woman that fits in my hand.

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

I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.

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 a space there.

He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me, that's OK, but not my children.

An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.