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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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 16th, 1944

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