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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
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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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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 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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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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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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