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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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.
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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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