(b. 1949– )
U.S. novelist and screenwriter
Richard Price
The only screenplays that aren’t tampered with are the ones that aren’t made. Making a movie is an ensemble act. Writers are not authors out there. And scripts are not books. They’re blueprints. You work with others or you’re gone.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 398.
The first book is always the most fun, because when you write your first book you’re just a writer. Then you get published. Then you become an author, and once you’re an author the whole thing changes. You have a track record. You have a public. A certain literary persona. You can become very self-conscious and start to compete with yourself. No fun at all.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 383.
It’s important to me to have a place to work outside of where I live. So I have always found myself an office. I go off to work as if I had a clock to punch; at the end of the day I come home as if I had just gotten off the commuter train. I need to impose a structure on myself.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 383.