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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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.
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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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
Richard Ford
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Richard Ford
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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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford