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• Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.

  Richard Ford

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, College, Study

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

  Richard Ford

  Son, Thinking, People

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• You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Stories, Influence

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• Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

  Richard Ford

  Thinking, Ideas, Good Ideas

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• Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

  Richard Ford

  Ignorant, Alive, Tweet

  Richard Ford (2012). “A Piece of My Heart”, p.142, A&C Black

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• You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

  Richard Ford

  Wells

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• Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

  Richard Ford

  Happiness, Writing, Important

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• 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.

  Richard Ford

  Opportunity, Play, Guilty

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• 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.

  Richard Ford

  Brain, Obsessive Compulsive, Disorder

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• I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

  Richard Ford

  Girl, Boys, Married

  "On the move with author Richard Ford". Interview with William Porter, www.denverpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

  Richard Ford

  Fear, Writing, Loss

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• I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Literature, Beats

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• My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

  Richard Ford

  Jobs, People, Empathy

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• Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

  Richard Ford

  Maps, Firsts, Serials

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• Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

  Richard Ford

  Order, Insanity, Style

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• For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

  Richard Ford

  Divorce, Feel Better, Thinking

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.27, A&C Black

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• Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.

  Richard Ford

  Summer, Morning, Moving

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.343, A&C Black

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• The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

  Richard Ford

  Giving, Credit, World

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.203, A&C Black

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• 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 subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

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  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.

  Richard Ford

  Memories, New Orleans, Self

  "Elegy for my city" by Richard Ford, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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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 be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

  Richard Ford

  Want, Married, Complicated

  Richard Ford (2012). “Rock Springs”, p.224, A&C Black

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• Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

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  Long, Way, Take Nothing For Granted

  Richard Ford (2012). “Canada”, p.202, A&C Black

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• Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

  Richard Ford

  Sorry, Evil, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

  Richard Ford

  Baseball, Football, Writing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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