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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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 had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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