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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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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 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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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