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
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We are aware now, over the course of the last two years, that several other nations have developed offensive information warfare units, organizations, tactics, doctrine and capability.
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The highest proportion of consumers in two decades anticipate a falling unemployment rate in 2004.
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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.
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I never will forget standing on top of the truck when Junior won that Texas Busch. (Earnhardt) had on his cowboy boots and jumped from the top to the bottom. He was so excited to see (Earnhardt Jr.) win. He was really, really proud of him. He'd be proud of him today.
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Many years ago, when I was just an independent driver sleeping under the truck, man, when you got to stay in a Holiday Inn, that was a treat. I've cleaned quite a few parts in the bathtub of a Holiday Inn in my time. In the late '60s, we'd go on a three-month tour. You'd have to build your cars in the parking lot. If you had an engine problem or had to build a gear, you'd take it in the room, wash it in hot water and put it back together.
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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.
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I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
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You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.