Richard Ford Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

  Richard Ford

  Book, Views, Literature

• I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

  Richard Ford

  Book, Serious

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

• A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Book, Different

• I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

  Richard Ford

  Book, People, Literature

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

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