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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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.
Richard Ford
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
Richard Ford
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
Richard Ford
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
Richard Ford
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
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.
Richard Ford
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Richard Ford
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
Richard Ford
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Richard Ford
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
Richard Ford
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.
Richard Ford
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
Richard Ford
Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
Richard Ford
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
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
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
Richard Ford
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
Richard Ford
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Richard Ford
I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.
Richard Ford