Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of… — 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… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — 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… — 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
I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can… — 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
