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.
From Richard Ford
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.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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.
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
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