Quotes by : Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out....

Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless....

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

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

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.

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just....

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....

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.