“Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.” ShouldBookLiteratureViewsProjectsReviewsExclusive Author:Richard Ford
“I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.” PeopleThinkingTryingLiteratureCausesCan DoPayAttentionOne ThingSonPay AttentionYour Son Author:Richard Ford
“I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.” PeopleIfsWayBookWholeAbleLiteratureProcessDisabilityImaginativeReconcileDyslexic Author:Richard Ford
“I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.” FeelingsReadingLiteratureGrewGrew UpWorthwhileMississippi Author:Richard Ford
“Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.” PeopleTryingPastLiteratureMoralNovelResponsibleAccountabilityBeing Responsible Author:Richard Ford
“I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.” ReadingLiteratureFeltBeatsExtrasReading Literature Author:Richard Ford
