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Top 25 Richard Price Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Richard Price Quote: “You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.”

2. “You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It’s enough to make you lose your mind day by day.”

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

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.”

4. “The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “I write because I can’t imagine not writing.”

5. “I write because I can’t imagine not writing.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Richard Price Quote: “If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I’m ready to start writing.”

7. “If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I’m ready to start writing.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!”

8. “Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Richard Price Quote: “Beat him, eat him and get out.”

11. “Beat him, eat him and get out.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.”

12. “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

Richard Price Quote: “You can’t take a character anywhere they don’t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.”

13. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Richard Price Quote: “I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don’t like to write – I like to be finished.”

15. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Richard Price Quote: “As he reached for his Visa card, the security monitor next to the register caught Billy in all his glory: football burly but slump-shouldered, his pale face with its exhaustion-starred eyes topped with half a pitchfork’s worth of prematurely graying hair. He was only forty-two, but that crushed-cellophane gaze of his combined with a world-class insomniac’s posture had once gotten him into a movie at a senior citizen’s discount.”

22. “As he reached for his Visa card, the security monitor next to the register caught Billy in all his glory: football burly but slump-shouldered, his pale face with its exhaustion-starred eyes topped with half a pitchfork’s worth of prematurely graying hair. He was only forty-two, but that crushed-cellophane gaze of his combined with a world-class insomniac’s posture had once gotten him into a movie at a senior citizen’s discount.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “He had the kind of droopy eyes that suggested he had never recovered from the exhausting experience of being born.”

23. “He had the kind of droopy eyes that suggested he had never recovered from the exhausting experience of being born.”

— Richard Price

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Richard Price Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Richard Price Quote: “The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.”

26. “The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.”

— Richard Price

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