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
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.
dream retirement farewell
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
book people literature
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.
fear
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
ignorant alive tweet
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
heart stories theory
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
logic
I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.
son thinking people
I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.
moving people world
Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
opposites ordinary behavior
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
facts mystery married
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
reading writing
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
space remember our-lives
What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
believe book different
A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.