Richard Ford Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard Ford
Richard Ford Famous Quotes & Sayings
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you
want to do - if you can.
want to do - if you can.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life.
and, with these things to make a life.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.
For the two of us, ours was just a version of life briefly perfected (though in a way that showed me something) and that ended.
What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.
All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with life.
I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.
What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain.
She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
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 guilty.
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.
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
It's odd how our fears, the ones we didn't know we had, alter our sight line and make us see things that never were.
For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.
I have a theory ... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written ... have really in any way been Southern in character.
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 moment to last a lifetime?
What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who