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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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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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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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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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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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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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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 started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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