Moving Quote by Richard Ford

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

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 got married…

— 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 about stuff…

— Richard Ford

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

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 pleasures are…

— Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

— Richard Ford