Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
Richard Ford
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Better
Puzzles
Angels
Gun
Angel
Including
Laws
Americans
Saner
Citizens
Puzzle
More quotes by Richard Ford
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
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
Richard Ford
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Richard Ford
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
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Richard Ford
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Richard Ford
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
Richard Ford
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
Richard Ford
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
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Richard Ford
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Richard Ford
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford
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
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Richard Ford
Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
Richard Ford
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
Richard Ford
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
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
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford