All Richard Ford Quotes
- I'm kind of a distractible guy. Distractible
- I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do. Been
- In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that… Brood
- Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. Across
- My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. Arms
- My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. Curiosity
- Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. Inspirational
- The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. Art
- The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me. Distinct
- Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. Came
- When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things. Inspirational
- Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know. Important
- Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole. Alive
- Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with… Admitting
- For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a… Air
- If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. Cure
- Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. Give
- I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. Dream
- It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but… Call
- For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of… Amusement
- If you lose all hope, you can always find it again. All
- They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked… Already Know
- Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important… Beginning
- Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why… Anymore
- Some idiotic things are well worth doing. Idiotic