I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me. — 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
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for… — 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
