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… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“almost nobody made it out of the game in one piece, and almost everybody thought they would be the exception.” — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 whole show, like a cat burying its shit.” — Richard Price Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.” — Richard Price Copy Share
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
