Literature Quotes by Richard Ford

9 Literature quotes by Richard Ford

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Richard Ford writes with a quiet precision. These few lines show how he can make everyday moments feel both ordinary and profoundly resonant.

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

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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously,…

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Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I…

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

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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project…

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I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can…

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I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can…

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Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much…

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“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things…

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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those…

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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

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

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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…

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Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

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“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”

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Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

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

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There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also…

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That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

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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…

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The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

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“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;”

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“And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people…

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“It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.”

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