Tracy Kidder

“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never…

— Tracy Kidder

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and…

— Tracy Kidder

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

— Tracy Kidder

“In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to…

— Tracy Kidder

“Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you…

— Tracy Kidder

“One shouldn't expect anyone to be complete at any given moment.”

— Tracy Kidder

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

— Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

— Tracy Kidder

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your…

— Tracy Kidder

I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are…

— Tracy Kidder

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them.…

— Tracy Kidder

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

— Tracy Kidder

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

— Tracy Kidder

“Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111”

— Tracy Kidder

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

— Tracy Kidder

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

— Tracy Kidder

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

— Tracy Kidder

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

— Tracy Kidder

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

— Tracy Kidder

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and,…

— Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people…

— Tracy Kidder

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

— Tracy Kidder

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

— Tracy Kidder

“[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor]…

— Tracy Kidder