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Famous Richard Ford Quotes
“Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.”
“Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.”
“Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.”
“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.”
“Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.”
“I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.”
“I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.”
“I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.”
“Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.”
“My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.”
“The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.”
“Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.”
“When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.”