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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.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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 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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