69 ordspråk av Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
 Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it. |
| At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done. |
| At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place. |
| Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. |
| Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. |
| Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. |
| Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world. |
| For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition, |
| From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car. |
| I always want to write something better than the last book. |
| I can look into parts of the world I don't understand and don't know about, and that's pretty wonderful. |
| I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can also be used when writing non-fiction. |
| I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why. |
| I grew up in Long Island, a place that vanished in front of my eyes. I grew up there in the '50s, in the great building boom. It was pretty distressing-you go away and come home and find a whole town gone, a cloverleaf in its place. |
| I have many thoughts about the view from Mt. Holyoke. It hasn't really changed very much, for one thing. |
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