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Tracy Kidder has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to…
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and…
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the…
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Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power…
— John Cheever
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For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I…
— Raymond Chandler
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