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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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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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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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