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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.

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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

Course, Crafts, Heart, Instrument, Stories

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

Curiosity, Done, Empathy, Jobs, People

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

Distinct, Interesting, Similar, Things, Way

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

Happiness, Important, Know, Things, Write, Writing

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

Art, Haunts, Life, Living, Loss, Past

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.

Cities, Knowing, Left, Memories, Poor, Scoured

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.

Complicated, Loved, Married, Somebody, Want

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

Came, Force, Hand, Hands, Writing

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

Boys, Girl, Happy, Mainly, Married, Right

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

Athlete, Finer, Personalities, Sports, Way, Writing

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

Dreamed, Life, Long, Running, Time, Together

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.

Actually, Decision, Light, Long, Real, Stars

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.

Bhutan, Flower, Smell, Taken, Told

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

Long, Stay, Take Nothing For Granted, Things, Way

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Taught, Very Good, Good Writers, Writer, Read

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

Art, Children, Consoling, Permanence, Real, Turf

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

Bad, Can Do, Decide, Good, Ifs

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

Give, Giving, Giving Up, Mean, Willing

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

Good, Good Ideas, Idea, Ideas, Marry, Thinking

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

Actually, Evil, Guy, Guys, Sorry

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