250 Quotes by Richard Ford

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

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.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

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.

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.