Richard Price Quotes (29 Quotes)


    You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're not either they can write or they can't.

    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.

    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.

    For years people have been telling me how great it was. But nobody could figure out how to make money with this story. Finally, Joe Roth, who founded his own movie studio, announced he wanted to direct it. If not for him it would still be sitting there.

    They're coming in on chapter 48 of a 200-chapter Russian novel. I mean, things happen in year one, episode three that do not play out until year two, episode three, and you just have to be there for the whole time.


    There's a dangerous thrill - a rush - in goodness. If you don't keep your wits about you, if you don't have a very sober take on what you're doing and who you're doing it too, you can inadvertently set little fires. The very people you are helping can wind up, emotionally, in worse shape than they were before.

    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.

    This book falls under the category of stuff I know, as opposed to stuff I need to learn.

    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.

    It makes a lot of sense. Your teeth are always with you. ... You can always update your car or a computer, but you just can't update teeth.

    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.

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


    I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

    The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

    The opportunity to invest globally both in private and public markets has grown substantially. By expanding their horizons outside of the U.S., institutions are finding better opportunities and diversification.

    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.

    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.

    All I really want is one outside opinion. They say, He who has two watches never knows what time it is - you have to pick one person and decide to trust them.

    ADC's Fiber Distribution Hub best meets our network requirements relative to product features and functionality, performance, cost and proven success in the industry. We are very confident in our selection of ADC as a key supplier in support of our FTTX network deployment and are excited to be able to respond to the growing demands in our communities for advanced communication from the home.

    I've worked in the sustainable design field for 10 years. And I wanted to finally practice what I preach. This kind of development is not only marketable, it's a feasible way to promote sustainable design.

    You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

    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.

    If you really want to say something in a film, don't make a big studio movie. The more money that's invested, the more people will want to have their say. Expensive films can't afford to alienate part of the audience. So it's up to smaller-scale films.

    It would make me so happy if I didn't have to write the scripts of my own books.

    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.

    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.

    You can't have a hell of a lot of ego about it, you have to surrender.

    You wake up one morning and a lane has fallen in. They've got to keep that road from falling in.


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