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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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