What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I didn't know with certainty what to say about the large world, and didn't care to risk speculating. And I still don't.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Though when I turn to regard life -- my own or others'-- I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also… — Richard Ford Copy Share
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford Copy Share
“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;” — Richard Ford Copy Share
“And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people… — Richard Ford Copy Share
