Top 33 Quotes by Richard Ford

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

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

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

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