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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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• They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?

  Richard Ford

  Mother, Children, Father

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 28, 2015

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

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Literature, Beats

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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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• America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

  Richard Ford

  Rights, America, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Stories, Crafts

  “Good Raymond” by Richard Ford, www.newyorker.com. October 5, 1998.

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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.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

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

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

  Richard Ford

  Long, Way, Take Nothing For Granted

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

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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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• 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

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• I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

  Richard Ford

  Taught, Very Good, Good Writers

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

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• I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Feelings, Literature

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

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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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