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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
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