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.
law world oppressors
Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!
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
new-york book character
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.
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.