Quotes by : Richard Ford

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who....

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

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

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.....

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

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct....

One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact....

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....