Richard Ford: "Writing is an exercise in resistance in the face of death". Ford is one of the fundamental American storytellers of the last century.
He expresses himself with the open frankness of the amateur. Ford: Literature provides each reader with a space in which the rules are not the same as those that govern the world. The last line of my novel went like this: "We tried to go as far as you, except your death." The most interesting way to think about death is how it concerns us personally.