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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Love
Acts
Endless
Series
Single
Thing

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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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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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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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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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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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 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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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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.
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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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