Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
August WilsonRead
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Writing is an iterative process that involves constant revision and improvement.
This quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance and continuous improvement in the writing process. August Wilson suggests that writing is not merely about putting words on a page, but rather it requires ongoing effort to refine and enhance one's work through rewriting and editing.
Themes
WritingRewritingProcessImprovementCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
In a writing workshop, to encourage students to keep revising their drafts.
More from August Wilson
All quotes βI think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
August WilsonRead
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
August WilsonRead
I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'
August WilsonRead
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
August WilsonRead
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
August WilsonRead
Similar quotes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeRead
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya AngelouRead
How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
Noam ChomskyRead
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
Apollonius Of TyanaRead
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
Edsger DijkstraRead
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
Donald KnuthRead