Richard Ford Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.”

“My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.”

“I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.”

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

“I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.”

“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.”

“I'm kind of a distractible guy.”

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

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

“I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.”