Don’t read your reviews. […] Don’t write reviews. (Your judgment’s always tainted.) […] Don’t write letters to the editor. (No one cares.)
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Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
United States · b. 1944
Arts and letters
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American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Sportswriter, Independence Day and the Frank Bascombe books. Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1996.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer’s a good idea.
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