Will Price
Will Price
William Lightfoot Pricewas an American architect, a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete, and a founder of the utopian communities of Arden, Delaware and Rose Valley, Pennsylvania...
built entirely publicly
If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.
war lying kids
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.
religious believe sacrifice
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.
writing cities police
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.
running writing character
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.
gambling beats
Beat him, eat him and get out.
writing issues bigger
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.
years mind letters
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day
good-night son men
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.
war lying kids
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
drug firsts looks
The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.
writing imagine because-i-can
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
writing stories ends
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
economic fighting folks freedom greatest hard history individual moral national people security values
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.