Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Richard Ford Quotes

Find the best Richard Ford quotes with images from our collection at QuotesLyfe. You can download, copy and even share it on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Linkedin, Pinterst, Reddit, etc. with your family, friends, colleagues, etc. The available pictures of Richard Ford quotes can be used as your mobile or desktop wallpaper or screensaver.


Richard Ford Quotes: "I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did."

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Some idiotic things are well worth doing."

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.




Richard Ford Quotes: "Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up."

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



Richard Ford Quotes: "If you lose all hope, you can always find it again."

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.




Richard Ford Quotes: "Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things."

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.



Richard Ford Quotes: "If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure."

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore."

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.




Richard Ford Quotes: "Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks."

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



Richard Ford Quotes: "The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better."

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.



Richard Ford Quotes: "At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars."

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.



Richard Ford Quotes: "You can't always go to the well and have things be funny."

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.



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

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




Richard Ford Quotes: "Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts."

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.



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

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



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

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.



Richard Ford Quotes: "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."

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.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I didn't read a serious book until I was 19."

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.



Richard Ford Quotes: "What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly."

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.



Richard Ford Quotes: "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 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 Quotes: "With imagination, you can put something where nothing was."

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.



Richard Ford Quotes: "The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing."

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together."

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty."

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I'm kind of a distractible guy."

I'm kind of a distractible guy.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it."

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.



Richard Ford Quotes: "We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy."

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea."

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite."

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.



Richard Ford Quotes: "It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others."

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.



Richard Ford Quotes: "You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself."

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write."

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



Richard Ford Quotes: "Most things don't stay the way they are very long."

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.



Richard Ford Quotes: "The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation."

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle."

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.



Richard Ford Quotes: "When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things."

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part."

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart."

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.



Richard Ford Quotes: "You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to."

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Fear and hope are alike underneath."

Fear and hope are alike underneath.



Richard Ford Quotes: "It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?"

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?



Richard Ford Quotes: "And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces."

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.



Richard Ford Quotes: "America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism."

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know."

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated."

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.



Richard Ford Quotes: "The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me."

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.



Richard Ford Quotes: "Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself."

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.



Richard Ford Quotes: "I don't have a very logical and orderly mind."

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.



Richard Ford Quotes: "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."

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.