Rewrites Quotes

Maybe for me and my peers, we`ve gotten a lot of power too quickly. I`m not a celebrity. I don`t sing or dance, so I act. All the public sees is the autograph signing and the sunglasses. They don`t see the 16-hour days, the last-minute rewrites and the hell that goes into movies. (1989 Quote)

But at the end of the day, it was his call. So I would go off and do rewrites while they shot.

(Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometimes were, in Wilson`s habitual frequent rewrites) interchanged. His dramatic structures and even his use of the musical powers of African American idioms were fairly old-fashioned compared with the exciting adventurousness of Suzan-Lori Parks. But even his traditionalism could be seen as a source of strength.) He was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O`Neill and Arthur Miller, ... the politically engaged, direct, social-realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.