Richard Ford Quotes

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.