Quote

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Richard Ford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Sense
America
Whole
Hard
Pummeled
Time
Patriotism
People
Beats
Constantly
Rights

More quotes by Richard Ford

Image
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Richard Ford
Image
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
Image
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
Image
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Richard Ford
Image
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
Richard Ford
Image
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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
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?
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford