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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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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 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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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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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.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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