17 Richard Ford Quotes for You to Enjoy

Richard Ford

American Author

Born: Feb 16, 1944

About Father Life Think Writing You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Richard Ford

Out Would Compulsive Had Obsessive Period Brain Get Disorder Things

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. Richard Ford

Persistence Writing Married Only Except Done Being The Only Thing Ever Thing

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. Richard Ford

Life You Building Become More Take Longer Supposed Attractive Make Makes Said Built Doing Lot Maybe Blueprint Rewards After Subtle Which Your Less Apparent

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail. Richard Ford

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

Love You Somebody Think Once How Just

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. Richard Ford

Experience Rather Writer Parochial Participate Mississippi Greater Southern Than American American Experience Wanted Decided Urge Larger Early

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all. Richard Ford

Life Work Writing Giving Out Through Absolutely Writer Make Lot Children Flat Flat Out Muddled Hard Things

I'm kind of a distractible guy. Richard Ford

Kind Guy

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. Richard Ford

Writing Reading Writers Leads Most

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid. Richard Ford

Great Dyslexic Kid Reader Said Being

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. Richard Ford

First Writer Maybe Regional Then Across Serial Map Here

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