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Richard Price
American
Writer
Born:
Oct 12
,
1949
Because
Book
Just
Write
Writing
You
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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
Art
Freedom
You
Mind
Somebody
Lose
Think
Took
Definition
Would
Excellence
Talent
Make
Tied
Artist
Who
Away
Necessarily
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
Love
Music
Learning
Fly
Sax
Pretend
About
Know
How
Listen
Much
Why
Playing
Chance
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
Character
You
Book
Writing
Liberty
Statue
Statue Of Liberty
About
Write
Take
Main
Takes
Over
New
Trade
Integrate
York
New York
Center
Acknowledged
Place
View
Moment
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
Book
Judge
Too
See
Ten
Ten Times
Physically
Never
Like
Wrote
Reactions
Read
Close
Times
Accurately
Just
Different
Movie
Screenplay
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
Reality
Nothing
Paragraph
More
Small
Talking
Because
Amateur
Than
Just
Different
Movie
Requires
Whole
Here
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
Fire
Kind
Variety
Environments
Industrial
Occurs
Causes
Conveyor
Coal
Uniquely
Event
Belt
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
Character
You
Creativity
Those
Lies
Take
Within
Go
Expect
Where
Confines
Anywhere
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