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

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Mississippi
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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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.
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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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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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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.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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