Life Quotes by Richard Ford

“It's hard to go through life without killing someone.”

— Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

— Richard Ford

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

— Richard Ford

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

— Richard Ford

“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.”

— Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

— Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

— Richard Ford

“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

“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

“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

“Everything has seemed beckoning and ahead, though I am unsure now if life has not suddenly passed me like a big rumbling…

— Richard Ford

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this…

— Richard Ford

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

“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

If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for…

— Richard Ford

“The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of…

— Richard Ford

“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed,…

— Richard Ford

“I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people…

— Richard Ford

“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

“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

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

“She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and…

— Richard Ford

“The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me,…

— Richard Ford

“Though when I turn to regard life -- my own or others'-- I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught…

— Richard Ford

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

“I walked out of the condos onto the flat lithesome beach this morning, and took a walk in my swimming trunks and…

— Richard Ford

“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

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

— Richard Ford

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the…

— Richard Ford

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

— Richard Ford

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and…

— Richard Ford

“All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get…

— Richard Ford

“...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.”

— Richard Ford

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget…

— Richard Ford