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I'm kind of a distractible guy.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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 don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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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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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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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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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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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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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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I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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