Richard Ford Work Quotations

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

Any network traffic that is going to pose a security problem is just blocked. It's just as if the network traffic is purified before it passes on to our networks -- attacks are blocked and prevented from spreading. We just get the reports about how much. It's simple and effective, but we don't trust anything to be foolproof.

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.