Richard Ford

Quotes

• “One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”
• “Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.”
• “I may be too cynical," Catherine says.”
• “In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.”
• “"I'm not worried," I said. And I wasn't, because I thought things would be fine. And even though I was wrong, it is still not so bad a way to set your mind toward the unknown just when you are coming into the face of it.”
• “It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1944-02-16 ) February 16, 1944 (age 82) , Jackson, Mississippi , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist , short story writer

Nationality

American

Education

Michigan State University ( BA ), University of California, Irvine ( MFA )

Period

1976–present

Genre

Literary fiction

Literary movement

Minimalism , Dirty realism

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Image

Oliver Mark - Richard Ford, Berlin 2002.jpg

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