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
writing persistence done
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
flower taken
I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
loneliness stories disease
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
maturity admitting way
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.
thinking ideas good-ideas
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
book serious
I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.
writing stories influence
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
writing hands force
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
imagination
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
very-good
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
secret who-we-are married
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.
ifs loses
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
book views literature
Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
reading writing
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.