Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And now, while he didn't particularly think any of these stories was a bit truer, he did realize that he didn't really… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time,… — 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
