Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call… — 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
The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — 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
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest,… — 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
