Tracy Kidder Quotes
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You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
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My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
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When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
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I always want to write something better than the last book.
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I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
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I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to…
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I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a…
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I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth…
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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves…
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Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
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People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
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What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
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I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the…
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
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Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in…
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