Quote

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.

Richard Ford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Flower
Couldn
Told
Taken
Something
Way
Bhutan
Flowers
Smell

More quotes by 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
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
Image
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
Richard Ford
Image
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
Image
I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.
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
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
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
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Richard Ford
Image
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Richard Ford
Image
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.
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
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
Richard Ford
Image
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford
Image
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Richard Ford
Image
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
Richard Ford