Richard Price
Richard Price
Richard Pricewas a Welsh moral philosopher, preacher and mathematician. He was a nonconformist, meaning that he was a Protestant Christian who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including Founding Fathers of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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.
At some point I started wondering what it means to teach for free in an inner-city school - what's in it for me?
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.
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.
Very nice results. Pricing was a significant factor and they had no extraneous events in the quarter.
There are short-term costs related to rescue efforts but it will probably have more of a psychological than a financial effect.
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.
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 part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.
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.
In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies
Beat him, eat him and get out.
Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.