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Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower…
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game…
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,…
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people…
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like…
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers.…
— Claudia Schiffer
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There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood…
— Kabir
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;…
— Ramona Koval
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All books are judged by their covers until they are read.
— Maryrose Wood
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
— Ahmet Zappa
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain…
— Zoe Saldana
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My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day…
— Alberto Manguel
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Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it…
— Jane Green
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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
— Diana Gabaldon
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper…
— Rick Bragg
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough…
— Walter Kirn
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We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them…
— Marie Lu
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