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....

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner....

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce,....

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

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and....

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

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....

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