Corner Bar Quotes by 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

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

— Richard Price

“almost nobody made it out of the game in one piece, and almost everybody thought they would be the exception.”

— Richard Price

“On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her…

— Richard Price

“His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's…

— Richard Price

“It was time to chuck this life, with its Jo-Jos and Rodneys, its bloody burning children and walking-dead parents, just kick dirt over the…

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Price

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with…

— Richard Price

“In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk…

— Richard Price

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— 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…

— Richard Price