Quote

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Richard Ford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Write
Writing
Backed
Reading
Read

More quotes by Richard Ford

Image
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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
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.
Richard Ford
Image
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Richard Ford
Image
Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
Richard Ford
Image
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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
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.
Richard Ford
Image
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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
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
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
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
Image
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
Richard Ford
Image
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Richard Ford
Image
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford