Richard Ford

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and…

— Richard Ford

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

— Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

— Richard Ford

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

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”

— Richard Ford

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

— Richard Ford

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget…

— Richard Ford

There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It…

— Richard Ford

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

— Richard Ford

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all…

— Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

— Richard Ford

“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;”

— Richard Ford

“And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where…

— Richard Ford

“It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.”

— Richard Ford

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if…

— Richard Ford

“Anyone could be anyone else in most ways. Face the facts.”

— Richard Ford

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

“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

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”

— Richard Ford

“Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.”

— Richard Ford

“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who…

— Richard Ford

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

— Richard Ford

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

— Richard Ford

“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it…

— Richard Ford