Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Allow
Saner
Laws
Clips
Weapons
Shotguns
Concerned
Handguns
America
Automatic
Think
Banned
Thinking
Hunting
Gun
More quotes by 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.
Richard Ford
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
Richard Ford
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
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?
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
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
Richard Ford
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
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Richard Ford
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
Richard Ford
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
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
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
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.
Richard Ford
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.
Richard Ford
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
Richard Ford
Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
Richard Ford
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
Richard Ford
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.
Richard Ford
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford