Richard Ford Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Heart, Way

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Mar 02, 2013

• Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Writing

• 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

• 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

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

  Richard Ford

  Happiness, Writing, Important

• When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

  Richard Ford

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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

• Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Persistence, Done

• 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

• 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.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Thinking, Order

• The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

  Richard Ford

  Sports, Writing, Athlete

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Hands, Force

• I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Years, Take Me

• 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.

• To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Writing

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

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