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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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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.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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