“What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;... to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole… — 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
