I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — 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
My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. — 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
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.” — 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
