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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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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 don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.
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I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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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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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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