A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may … - August Wilson

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I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

August Wilson

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.

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I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Corner, Corners, Death, Fastballs, Nothing

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

Folks, Play, Say, Theater, White

. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

Black, Life, Play, Set, Supposed, Writing

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

Deny, Law, Practice, Sociology, Struggle, Survive