Richard Price Quotes

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• The subject comes first, the medium second. Art
• A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. Art
• I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name. Changed
• You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. Burnt
• In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had… All
• I have no fear of changing looks. Changing
• I love deliberately badly written books. Badly
• Some people are better at handling the limelight than others. Better
• 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… Art
• The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. Belt
• 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… Accurately
• 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… Amateur
• 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… All
• I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. All
• 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
• I write because I can't imagine not writing. Imagine
• 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.… Anyone
• 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… Chance
• 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… Beginning
• 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.… Acknowledged

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