Zitat des Tages von Richard Ford:
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 think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.