I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally. — 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
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
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — 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
“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
Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way.… — 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 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
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 Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — 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 got married… — 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
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — 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 about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
