Quote

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Stay
Long
Way
Things

More quotes by Richard Ford

Image
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
Image
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford
Image
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
Richard Ford
Image
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
Richard Ford
Image
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
Richard Ford
Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
Richard Ford
Image
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
Richard Ford
Image
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Richard Ford
Image
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford