"In order to write novels for a living……" — 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 that I'm working on."
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Richard Ford
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65 Quotes by Richard Ford
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I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to…
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Fear and hope are alike underneath.
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What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied.…
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved…
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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far…
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what…
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When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less…
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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More Brood Quotes
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
— Isaac Asimov
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
— Richard Sibbes
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended,…
— Kate Chopin
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
— Thomas Head Raddall
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
— E. M. Forster
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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