Richard Ford Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.”

“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.”

“The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.”

“The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.”

“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.”

“I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.”

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

“Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.”

“I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.”