Richard Ford Quotes

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Richard Ford

Profession : Author

Birth : February 16, 1944

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

Richard Ford

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.

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If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

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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.

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I'm kind of a distractible guy.

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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

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

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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.

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That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

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