Top 66 Richard Price Quotes
#1. Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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#2. I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
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#5. Later that night it took him most of a bottle of Chartreuse to work up the resolve to quit drinking.
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#7. The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Balloons, all blown up. How, where and why he got
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#11. Rocco watched Strike limp into the human slipstream of Eighth Avenue, watched him negotiate his way through lowlifes and taxpayers until he disappeared inside the terminal doors without a backward glance.
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#12. Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.
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#13. 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.
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#15. He also knew he would never come back all the way with her.
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#16. You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
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#17. Rocco loving them both so much that he knew he'd never tell a soul about this moment, just take it to bed with him every night for years, like a miser's secret stash of gold.
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#18. On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex flags from across the room.
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#19. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
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#21. Saturday was a sweet and sunny day, the kind that made people think about getting it together once and for all
health, kids, jobs, personal appearance, doing things right this time.
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#23. Whatever. Nothin', nothin' at all. I'm sittin' there thirty minutes just waitin'.
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#24. As a reminder to himself that at forty-three you don't make plans to dabble in different lives. At forty-three, what you are, what you know, is about as far as you're going to go in this life;
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#25. 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.
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#26. I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.
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#28. Splattered all over the wall, come right up off his feet like a pulled puppet just
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#29. Lorenzo thinking that he truly liked Jesse, always had.
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#30. 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 feeling of complete control.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Indians, man, they were so tough they useta eat steak with a spoon." "I hate steak," said Tyrone.
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#33. Being nice, setting him up. The glow in his belly got redder, but he also felt a new pain, a stabbing sensation, as if someone was in
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#34. 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.
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#35. On the roof of the Accord again, then bent down, pressed his face against the driver's
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#36. The only place a man can be truly handicapped is in his mind, and that a man who can conquer his own mind has got the world at his feet.
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#38. He restrained himself from another wisecrack, infinitesimally but with great effort attempting to close down his nightclub approach to education; every positive change in his life, every minute increment in character, acquired more or less through shame.
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#39. The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
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#43. As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.
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#44. Almost nobody made it out of the game in one piece, and almost everybody thought they would be the exception.
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#46. Rocco drove up the West Side until they reached the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. The sky continued to almost imperceptibly lighten, the birds coming on in earnest now, dozens of them barreling low from tree to tree over the crime scene as if they were stringing beads.
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#50. The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.
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#51. The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.
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#53. Out here?" he said quietly. "What?" The kid looked stricken. "Have I not treated you like a man out
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#56. Although the clientele were primarily the Eloi of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, an incident a month earlier had involved a platinumed-out crew of Bronx Morlocks:
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#57. Yeah, but I ain't worried about it, Rodney said,
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#58. Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.
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#59. Yeah, uh-huh." "OK. Were you coming from a store or something when you saw him?" "Naw, I was like, coming from the benches." "And where was he?
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#61. Don't they watch the news? Uranus isn't even a planet anymore.
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#62. York. Self-conscious about his own corrupted dimensions, he pushed himself away from the table and trotted across the traffic to the store. He almost sprained his wrist pushing on the locked door, then jumped a little at the delayed buzz of electronic permission. To Bind an Egg was about the size of
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Year they even sacrificed a great buffalo whose burned bones spelled 'murder,' but the tapping
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#66. Because, man, if this city ain't Caleb's mountain, I don't know what is, and those giants out there are just stomping people into the ground.
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