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Rick Bragg Quotes

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people Picture Quote #1

I don’t think there’s a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book Picture Quote #1

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you’re at your worst, that’s a friend Picture Quote #1

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe Picture Quote #1

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background Picture Quote #1

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment Picture Quote #1

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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant Picture Quote #1

It wasn’t that I had gotten it right... but that I had gotten true Picture Quote #1

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 not real writers. That’s ridiculous Picture Quote #1

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants Picture Quote #1

I don’t think there’s a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book Picture Quote #1

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats Picture Quote #1

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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 played over and over again. There’s nothing unique or marvelous. It’s not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It’s just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you’re not a good sportswriter Picture Quote #1

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it Picture Quote #1

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 are willing to. It chips away a person’s dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be Picture Quote #1

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 you could touch it again Picture Quote #1

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon Picture Quote #1

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine Picture Quote #1

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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, and the people who don’t love you will, too Picture Quote #1

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 are holes in the floor of heaven Picture Quote #1

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 away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them Picture Quote #1

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These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people. (Rick Bragg Quotes) I don’t think there’s a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. (Rick Bragg Quotes) I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you’re at your worst, that’s a friend (Rick Bragg Quotes) Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe (Rick Bragg Quotes) The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background (Rick Bragg Quotes) This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment (Rick Bragg Quotes) People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant (Rick Bragg Quotes) It wasn’t that I had gotten it right... but that I had gotten true (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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 not real writers. That’s ridiculous (Rick Bragg Quotes) Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants (Rick Bragg Quotes) I don’t think there’s a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book (Rick Bragg Quotes) I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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 over again. There’s nothing unique or marvelous. It’s not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It’s just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you’re not a good sportswriter (Rick Bragg Quotes) Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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 are willing to. It chips away a person’s dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be (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 you could touch it again (Rick Bragg Quotes) It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon (Rick Bragg Quotes) You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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, and the people who don’t love you will, too (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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 are holes in the floor of heaven (Rick Bragg Quotes) 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 away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them (Rick Bragg Quotes)