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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
logic
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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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.
wells
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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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.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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.