All Rick Bragg Quotes
- 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… Book
- 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… Accepting
- 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… Beautiful
- It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true. Funny
- 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… Bring
- 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,… Attention
- I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats. Believe
- 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… All
- And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has… Been
- I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. Book
- Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants. Assistants
- People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. Ignorant
- The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. 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… Airport
- 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… Bistro
- Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. Amount
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Babies
- 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,… All
- 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… Bottle