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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
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Ignorant
Alive
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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