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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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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 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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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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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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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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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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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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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 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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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