Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part. — 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
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Everything has seemed beckoning and ahead, though I am unsure now if life has not suddenly passed me like a big rumbling… — 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
“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life… — 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
“...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit… — 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
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people… — 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
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
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — 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
“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
“A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you see the very things you'll never adapt to coming toward you… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I walked out of the condos onto the flat lithesome beach this morning, and took a walk in my swimming trunks and… — 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
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
What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — 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
“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and… — 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
