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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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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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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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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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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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