All Richard Ford Quotes
- Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that Causes
- At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted… Actually Made
- Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. Dreamed
- Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle. Belong
- What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to… Admittedly
- You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. Good
- Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Inspirational
- Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part. Along
- She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind. Artist
- You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to. Bad
- Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. Bank
- I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally. Books
- Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms. Arms
- I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an… American
- It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't,… Dream