Rick Bragg

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

— Rick Bragg

“…dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms where the walls seem lined with razor blades.”

— Rick Bragg

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper…

— Rick Bragg

“On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori’s. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip…

— Rick Bragg

Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side…

— Rick Bragg

“...because dreaming backwards can carry a man through some dark rooms...”

— Rick Bragg

“I guess it is what you do if you grow up with warnings of damnation ringing from every church door and radio…

— Rick Bragg

“They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or…

— Rick Bragg

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream.…

— Rick Bragg

“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always…

— Rick Bragg

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

— Rick Bragg

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

— Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

— Rick Bragg

“Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.”

— Rick Bragg

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want…

— Rick Bragg

“only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control.”

— Rick Bragg

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

— Rick Bragg

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game…

— Rick Bragg

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…

— Rick Bragg

“There was hope, not much hope, but some, that her husband would change. She dreamed he would stop drinking up his paycheck,…

— Rick Bragg

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in…

— Rick Bragg

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone…

— Rick Bragg

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone…

— Rick Bragg

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help…

— Rick Bragg

“the unwritten rule of engagement had been “If it looks hostile, shoot it.”

— Rick Bragg