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
empty
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
long way take-nothing-for-granted
Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
ignorant alive tweet
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
firsts maps serials
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
father arms exploding
My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
extinction sometimes feels
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
enough theme cases
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.
failing worthwhile asks
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
long trying way
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
imagination
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
writing years take-me
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
writing thinking order
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.
girl boys married
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
love-is endless series
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.