250 Quotes by Richard Ford

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.