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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Asshole
Tweet
Ignorant
Alive

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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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 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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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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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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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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.
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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