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.

-Richard Price

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In A Given Scene I May Know

Richard Price

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.

Topic

Running

Character

Writing

I Can Never Read This Book, Just Like I Can Never See A Movie That I Wrote A Screenplay For. I Can Read It And See It Physically, But I Can't Accurately Judge It. I'm Too Close To It. If I Read It Ten Times I'll Have Ten Different Reactions.

Book

Judging

Different