I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“…dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms where the walls seem lined with razor blades.” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope… — Rick Bragg Copy Share
“On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori’s. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“...because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms...” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“I guess it is what you do if you grow up with warnings of damnation ringing from every church door and radio station and family reunion, in a place where total strangers will walk up to you at the Piggly Wiggly and ask if you are Saved. Even if you deny that faith, rebuke it, you still carry it around… — Rick Bragg Copy Share
“They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
