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Beat him, eat him and get out.
Richard Price / Novelist
Beats
Gambling
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Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!
Richard Price / Novelist
Law
Oppressors
World
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The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.
Richard Price / Novelist
Bigger
Issues
Writing
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I write because I can't imagine not writing.
Richard Price / Novelist
Because I Can
Imagine
Writing
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The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.
Richard Price / Novelist
Drug
Firsts
Looks
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If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
Richard Price / Novelist
Ends
Stories
Writing
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You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
Richard Price / Novelist
Kids
War
Lying
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Finished
Office
Writing
Everywhere
Avoid
Offices
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day
Richard Price / Novelist
Letters
Mind
Years
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
Richard Price / Novelist
Alphabet
Letters
Rearranging
Enough Your Mind
Writers
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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 / Novelist
Character
Creativity
Lying
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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 / Novelist
Anywhere
Confines
Lies
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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 / Novelist
Causes
Coal
Events
Fire
Variety
Belt
Conveyor
Environments
Event
Industrial
Occurs
Uniquely
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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 / Novelist
Constant
Minutes
Ready
Beginning Start End
Spreading
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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 / Novelist
Character
Jam
Needs
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Here And There
Paragraph
Reality
Talking
Amateur
Requires
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Relationship
Angel
Book
Classroom
Wings
Descend
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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 / Novelist
Art
Choices
Paint
Writing
No Choice
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Good Night
Men
Son
Two
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Cities
Police
Writing
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Chance
Knows
Listening To Music
Love Learning Music
Pretend
Sax
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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 / Novelist
Art
Excellence
Mind
Thinking
Tied
Definition
Necessarily
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Retirement
Squad
Years
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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 / Novelist
Book
Different
Judging
Reactions
Ten
Physically
Accurately
Judge
Ten Times
Screenplay
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
Class
Moving
Real
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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.
Richard Price / Novelist
War
Lying
Writing
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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 / Novelist
New York
Book
Character
Liberty
Statue Of Liberty
Writing
Acknowledged
Center
Integrate
Main
Statue
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And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.
Richard Price / Novelist
Believe
Religious
Sacrifice
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In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.
Richard Price / Novelist
Running
Character
People
Writing
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