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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Jackson
Mississippi
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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.
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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.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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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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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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