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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre 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.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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.
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I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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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'm kind of a distractible guy.
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