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. 
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He's back to form now and I couldn't be happier with him.
- 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