Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Richard Fordis an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank with You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1944
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
Richard Ford quotes about
dream retirement farewell
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
want married complicated
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.
giving-up mean giving
Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
divorce feel-better night
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.
life running long
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.
air lasts moments
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
important whats-important knows
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
cutting two people
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
stars real light
At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
loss simple chance
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.
writing stories influence
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
can-do ifs
You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.
artist opposites mind
She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.
empty
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.