“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
The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't… — 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
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here… — 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
“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
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
“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“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 Image
