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 …

- Richard Price

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

- Richard Price

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

- Richard Price

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

- Richard Price

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

- Richard Price

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

- Richard Price

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 m…

- Richard Price

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…

- Richard Price

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 t…

- Richard Price