Rick Bragg Quotes

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• It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so…
• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people…
• The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The…
• It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
• When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and…
• 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,…
• I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
• Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him…
• And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has…
• I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
• Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
• People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
• The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
• I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then…
• There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're…
• Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
• It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them…
• This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky…
• Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be,…
• 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 road…

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