In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect… — 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
Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As… — 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
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and… — 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
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think… — 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
