Author: Richard Ford

Quotes

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

- Richard Ford

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

- Richard Ford

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

- Richard Ford

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

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

- Richard Ford

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

- Richard Ford

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

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

- Richard Ford

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

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

- Richard Ford

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

- Richard Ford

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