69 ordspråk av Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
 [Not surprisingly, Ivory Fields was full of action, death, bravado and grim recognitions of life's finitude.] That's the part that embarrasses me still, ... I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically. |
| [When Farmer asked the farmers when they had come to America to work in such miserable conditions, they responded,] Have you ever seen Haiti? ... ... Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans who threw off their extremely cruel French masters and created their own new home. It's the only place in the world where this happened, but it happened in 1804, while slavery still flourished here in the United States. |
| 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. |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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