Quote

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Richard Ford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Something
Imagination
Nothing

More quotes by Richard Ford

Image
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Richard Ford
Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
Richard Ford
Image
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
Image
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Richard Ford
Image
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
Richard Ford
Image
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
Richard Ford
Image
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
Richard Ford
Image
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
Richard Ford
Image
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
Richard Ford