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I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

~Richard Ford

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm kind of a distractible guy.

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 16th, 1944

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