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

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
Find
Writing
Heart
Way
Commotion
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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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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'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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