Richard Price Quotes
"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."
- Richard Price
(Related: Day, Letters, Mind, Writers, Years)
"The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments."
- Richard Price
(Related: Causes, Fire, Variety)
"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
- Richard Price
(Related: Character, Liberty, Trade, Writing)
"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."
- Richard Price
(Related: Character, Creativity, Lies)
"I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly."
- Richard Price
(Related: Love, Music, Chance, Learning)
"I write because I can't imagine not writing."
- Richard Price
(Related: Writing)
"I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom."
- Richard Price
(Related: Classroom, Land, Students, Thinking)
"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
- Richard Price
(Related: Work)
"I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam."
- Richard Price
"I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality."
- Richard Price
(Related: Nothing, Reality, Talking)
"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
- Richard Price
"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
- Richard Price
(Related: Art, Talent, Artist, Excellence, Freedom, Mind)
"If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes."
- Richard Price
(Related: Beginning, End, Writing)