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Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

I write because I can’t imagine not writing.

– Richard Price

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

Richard Price

I write because I write – as anyone in the arts does. You’re a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You’re a writer because this is what you do.

– Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

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

Richard Price

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It’s enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

– Richard Price

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