Richard Ford Quotes


You turn away from being a professional, from the expectations of your parents, and that can be daunting. Because Eudora made it as a writer and lived in Jackson, it made that decision a whole lot more tenable. - Richard Ford


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


We want to give brands more time around audiences, while still having our promotions outside the classroom. - Richard Ford


We want law and order, but want it in a matter of respect. - Richard Ford


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


The river gives and the river basically takes away. There really isn't a vocabulary that I have access to that describes this. And as always, it's the least able to recover from this disaster who will suffer most intensely. - Richard Ford


Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. - Richard Ford


She would normally play in midfield but until we can find that person who can fill that role, that would be her position in the team for now. - Richard Forde


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


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