Richard Ford: I was slow to learn to read, went all the way through school not really reading more than the minimum, and still to this day can't read silently much faster than I can read aloud, but there were a lot of benefits to being dyslexic for me because when I finally did reconcile myself to how slow I was going to have to do it, then I think I came very slowly into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of language: the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break. I mean, I wasn't so badly dyslexic that I was disabled from reading. I just had to do it really slowly, and as I did, lingering on those sentences as I had to linger, I fell heir to language's other qualities, which I think has helped me write sentences.
Richard Ford: Jako sam sporo učio čitati, kroz čitavo školovanje sposobnost čitanja mi je bila minimalna i sve do današnjeg dana ne mogu u sebi čitati ništa brže nego na glas, ali disleksija mi je donijela puno prednosti, jer kada sam se konačno pomirio sa sporim napretkom, onda sam polako počeo cijeniti sve ostale osobine jezika i rečenica, a ne samo kognitivne aspekte jezika: skraćenice, zvuk riječi izgled riječi, odjeljak između dijelova i redova. . Hoću reći, nisam bio toliko disleksičan da nisam mogao čitati. Samo sam to morao činiti vrlo sporo, i kroz taj proces, zadržavajući se na rečenicama počeo sam cijeniti ostale kvalitete jezika što mi je pomoglo u oblikovanju svojih rečenica.