--- title: "Best Richard Ford Quotes" description: "Richard Ford is an American novelist and short‑story author best known for a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b098/author-richard-ford-2097.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b098/author-richard-ford-2097.jpg) # Richard Ford (1944) Researcher United States **184** quotes in **634** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Richard Ford is a researcher from the United States, best known for *The sportswriter*. ## Quick Facts About Richard Ford Born February 16, 1944 Nationality United States Profession Researcher Notable works The sportswriter Known for Canada, Wildlife, Rock Springs ## About Richard Ford Richard Ford is an American novelist and short‑story author best known for a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. ## Awards & Honors Lucien Barrière Literary Award honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 Q24930544 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Pulitzer Prize for Fiction PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction PEN/Malamud Award Guggenheim Fellowship Show 4 more awards Princess of Asturias Literary Prize Prix Femina étranger Q16995068 Siegfried Lenz Prize ## Quotes by Richard Ford · Page 2 > [Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/your-father-has-to-die-better-he-dies-in-your-arms/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arms/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a3/richard-ford-2097_arms_your-father-has-to-die-better-he-dies-in_1137465.png) > [You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/you-can-t-always-go-to-the-well-and-have-things-be-funny/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85a/richard-ford-2097_comedy_you-can-t-always-go-to-the-well-and-have_814440.png) > [I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-don-t-have-a-very-logical-and-orderly-mind/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Logical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/logical/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/786/richard-ford-2097_logical_i-don-t-have-a-very-logical-and-orderly_458751.png) > [“It's hard to go through life without killing someone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/it-s-hard-to-go-through-life-without-killing-someone/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Hard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/richard-ford-2097_hard_it-s-hard-to-go-through-life-without-kil_567097.png) > [To write you had to read so I backed into reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/to-write-you-had-to-read-so-i-backed-into-reading/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/richard-ford-2097_books_to-write-you-had-to-read-so-i-backed-int_538310.png) > [Fear and hope are alike underneath.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/fear-and-hope-are-alike-underneath/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/richard-ford-2097_fear_fear-and-hope-are-alike-underneath-21895_2189577.png) > [Some idiotic things are well worth doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/some-idiotic-things-are-well-worth-doing/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Idiotic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/idiotic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/richard-ford-2097_idiotic_some-idiotic-things-are-well-worth-doing_2932416.png) > [“I like writing that’s smart on the page.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-like-writing-that-s-smart-on-the-page/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Intelligence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/richard-ford-2097_intelligence_i-like-writing-that-s-smart-on-the-page_600490.png) > [Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/life-s-passed-along-to-us-empty-we-have-to-make-up-the-happiness-part/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Empty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/empty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/708/richard-ford-2097_empty_life-s-passed-along-to-us-empty-we-have_1488384.png) > [Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/things-happen-when-people-are-not-where-they-belong-and-the-world/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Moving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/richard-ford-2097_moving_things-happen-when-people-are-not-where_859731.png) > [“...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/to-encounter-me-now-at-age-sixty-six-is-to-be-unable-to-imagine-me-at/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/richard-ford-2097_change_to-encounter-me-now-at-age-sixty-six-is_2313359.png) > [Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/marry-somebody-you-love-and-who-thinks-you-being-a-writer-s-a-good/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Good ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-ideas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/richard-ford-2097_good-ideas_marry-somebody-you-love-and-who-thinks-y_1292153.png) > [At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/at-heart-of-course-a-story-itself-is-consolation-s-instrument/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Consolation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consolation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/610/richard-ford-2097_consolation_at-heart-of-course-a-story-itself-is-con_649730.png) > [“No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es lo importante.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/no-te-niegues-a-las-cosas-y-aseg-rate-de-tener-siempre-algo-que-no-te/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/richard-ford-2097_amor_no-te-niegues-a-las-cosas-y-aseg-rate-de_1058000.png) > [Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/your-life-doesn-t-mean-what-you-have-or-what-you-get-its-what-your-e/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Giving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f7/richard-ford-2097_giving_your-life-doesn-t-mean-what-you-have-or_857048.png) > [That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/that-said-being-dyslexic-i-wasn-t-a-great-reader-when-i-was-kid/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Being](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/228/richard-ford-2097_being_that-said-being-dyslexic-i-wasn-t-a-grea_211140.png) > [“He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/he-needed-me-to-do-what-sons-do-for-their-fathers-bear-witness-that/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Father](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/richard-ford-2097_father_he-needed-me-to-do-what-sons-do-for-thei_2182246.png) > [“Everything has seemed beckoning and ahead, though I am unsure now if life has not suddenly passed me like a big rumbling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/everything-has-seemed-beckoning-and-ahead-though-i-am-unsure-now-if/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32d/richard-ford-2097_life_everything-has-seemed-beckoning-and-ahea_1490874.png) > [Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/paul-ryan-he-is-the-real-evil-genius-of-the-republican-party-he-with/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Evil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/evil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/richard-ford-2097_evil_paul-ryan-he-is-the-real-evil-genius-of_2853092.jpg) > [“Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/just-exactly-what-that-good-life-was-the-one-i-expected-i-cannot-tell/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Expected](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/expected/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/richard-ford-2097_expected_just-exactly-what-that-good-life-was-the_1659521.png) > [Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/humans-generally-get-out-the-gist-of-what-they-need-to-say-right-at/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Contradicting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradicting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/richard-ford-2097_contradicting_humans-generally-get-out-the-gist-of-wha_1586723.jpg) > [“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/she-ordered-a-martini-and-encouraged-me-to-but-said-she-couldn-t/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Cancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cancer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/456/richard-ford-2097_cancer_she-ordered-a-martini-and-encouraged-me_514356.png) > [“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/but-to-anyone-reasonable-my-life-will-seem-more-or-less-normal-under/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/richard-ford-2097_life_but-to-anyone-reasonable-my-life-will-se_2384822.png) > [America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/america-beats-on-you-so-hard-the-whole-time-you-are-constantly-being/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/richard-ford-2097_america_america-beats-on-you-so-hard-the-whole-t_361320.png) > [“I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-thought-that-the-difference-between-a-successful-life-and-an/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/richard-ford-2097_life_i-thought-that-the-difference-between-a_979789.png) > [“It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/it-s-odd-to-imagine-of-course-you-pass-a-car-on-a-lonely-rural/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Canada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canada/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f67/richard-ford-2097_canada_it-s-odd-to-imagine-of-course-you-pass-a_1863059.png) > [Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/any-rainy-summer-morning-of-course-has-the-seeds-of-gloomy-alienation/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Alienation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alienation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/948/richard-ford-2097_alienation_any-rainy-summer-morning-of-course-has-t_2011772.png) > [“(My greatest human flaw and strength, not surprisingly, is that I can always imagine anything--a marriage, a conversation, a government--as being different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/my-greatest-human-flaw-and-strength-not-surprisingly-is-that-i-can/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Nature of man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-man/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/richard-ford-2097_nature-of-man_my-greatest-human-flaw-and-strength-not_2960672.png) > [What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/what-i-know-is-you-have-chance-in-life-of-surviving-it-if-you/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/richard-ford-2097_chance_what-i-know-is-you-have-chance-in-life-o_2826597.png) > [“What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/what-i-know-is-you-have-a-better-chance-in-life-of-surviving-it-if/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Better chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/better-chance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1b/richard-ford-2097_better-chance_what-i-know-is-you-have-a-better-chance_1484020.png) > [“How amazingly far normalcy extends; how you can keep it in sight as if you were on a raft sliding out to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/how-amazingly-far-normalcy-extends-how-you-can-keep-it-in-sight-as-if/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Normalcy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/normalcy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/richard-ford-2097_normalcy_how-amazingly-far-normalcy-extends-how-y_2684640.png) > [Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/finally-i-do-like-best-of-all-stories-whose-necessity-is-in-the/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Beneficiaries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beneficiaries/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/richard-ford-2097_beneficiaries_finally-i-do-like-best-of-all-stories-wh_1011056.jpg) > [Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/construed-as-turf-home-just-seems-a-provisional-claim-a-designation/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Achieve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achieve/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2be/richard-ford-2097_achieve_construed-as-turf-home-just-seems-a-prov_1957862.png) > [“A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you see the very things you'll never adapt to coming toward you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/a-sad-fact-of-course-about-adult-life-is-that-you-see-the-very-things/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Adult life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adult-life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/richard-ford-2097_adult-life_a-sad-fact-of-course-about-adult-life-is_1963794.png) > [“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/plenty-of-times-i-ve-seen-writers-famous-novelists-and-essayists-even/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Good guy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-guy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/richard-ford-2097_good-guy_plenty-of-times-i-ve-seen-writers-famous_2981863.png) > [“I had more positive views. Which made me feel that although I hadn't been taught to assimilate, a person perhaps assimilated without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-had-more-positive-views-which-made-me-feel-that-although-i-hadn-t/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Life lessons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-lessons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/772/richard-ford-2097_life-lessons_i-had-more-positive-views-which-made-me_2106442.png) > [“I walked out of the condos onto the flat lithesome beach this morning, and took a walk in my swimming trunks and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-walked-out-of-the-condos-onto-the-flat-lithesome-beach-this-morning/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Feeling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feeling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/richard-ford-2097_feeling_i-walked-out-of-the-condos-onto-the-flat_1327377.jpg) > [“I didn't know with certainty what to say about the large world, and didn't care to risk speculating. And I still don't.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-didn-t-know-with-certainty-what-to-say-about-the-large-world-and/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/664/richard-ford-2097_life_i-didn-t-know-with-certainty-what-to-say_1712924.png) > [I'm kind of a distractible guy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-m-kind-of-a-distractible-guy/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Guy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/richard-ford-2097_guy_i-m-kind-of-a-distractible-guy-1341600_1341600.png) > [The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/the-pace-of-life-feels-morally-dangerous-to-me/) [Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/) [Dangerous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dangerous/) 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Which made me feel that although I hadn't been taught to assimilate, a person perhaps assimilated without knowing it. I was doing it now. You did it alone, and not with other or for them. And assimilating possibly wasn't so hard and risky and didn't need to be permanent. This state of mind conferred another freedom on me and was like starting life over, or as I've already said, becoming someone else -- but someone who was not stalled but moving, which was the nature of things in the world. 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