“Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers” KnowsEndsFactsStoriesOrderFoundWrittenWorstStyleReaderChaosDeterminedRecognitionInsanityUrgencyImpliedBeneficiaries Author:Richard Ford
“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.” IfsStoriesLonelinessDiseaseCures Author:Richard Ford
“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.” WritingStoriesNovelInfluenceGood Story Author:Richard Ford
“At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.” HeartStoriesCoursesInstrumentsCraftsConsolation Author:Richard Ford
“I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.” HeartStoriesTheoryMake SenseCompelling Author:Richard Ford
