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33 quotes by Richard Ford

Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.
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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.

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Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical... →

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I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty... →

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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... →

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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

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

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

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

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I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are... →

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I'm kind of a distractible guy.

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

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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

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My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

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