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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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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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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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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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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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