List of Richard Ford Quotes

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Richard Ford
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I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. i go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.
Character People Agents
I don't want to be taken to bhutan and smell the flowers. i want to be told something i couldn't have been told any other way.
Flower Taken Bhutan
I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.
Logic Internals Sentences
To write you had to read so i backed into reading.
Reading Writing
When i write a novel i start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.
Morning Reading Writing
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
Taught Very Good Good Writers
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.
Reading Feelings Literature
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
Angel Gun Puzzles
Paul ryan, he is the real evil genius of the republican party. he with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who i detest. trump's just a moron, but ryan is ugly and evil.
Real Party Evil
Paul ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. but he's not little; he's actually quite tall, i'm sorry to see. i'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.
Sorry Evil Guy
Someone wanted me to write a profile for espn about the commissioner of baseball, and i said, "he's just some suit! some republican. no!" i mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, i'll write about those things because i watch them, i think about them a lot and i like them. but i don't want to write about barry bonds.
Baseball Football Writing
The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, i've become less interested in it. i don't want to write sports profiles.
Sports Writing Athlete
  • Born: February 16, 1944
  • Occupation: Novelist
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