Quotes by : Richard Ford

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their....

It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood....

Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting....

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

What's friendship's realest measure?I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone....

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

The question ‘Why poetry?’ isn’t asking what makes poetry unique among art forms; poetry may indeed....

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and....

Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or....