“I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing ...” — August Wilson Quote

“I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.”

“I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.”

“I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.”

“If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit.”

“Satire doesn't effect change.”

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”