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Richard Ford

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
— Richard Ford war
There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
— Richard Ford life
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
— Richard Ford persistence
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
— Richard Ford hope
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
— Richard Ford life
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
— Richard Ford people
I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.
— Richard Ford love
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
— Richard Ford work
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
— Richard Ford time
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
— Richard Ford write
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
— Richard Ford rain
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
— Richard Ford art
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
— Richard Ford books
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
— Richard Ford writing
That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.
— Richard Ford read
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
— Richard Ford life
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
— Richard Ford
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
— Richard Ford writing
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
— Richard Ford war
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
— Richard Ford life
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
— Richard Ford believe
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
— Richard Ford books
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
— Richard Ford life
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
— Richard Ford sin
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
— Richard Ford
Its interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we cant, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
— Richard Ford war

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