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Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Writing is revision. All prose responds to work."

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else."

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.




Tracy Kidder Quotes: "You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression"

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression




Tracy Kidder Quotes: "among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all"

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time"

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time




Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange."

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid."

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap."

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life"

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life




Tracy Kidder Quotes: "You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved."

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative"

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place"

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people."

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives"

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "The only real nation is humanity"

The only real nation is humanity



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself."

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "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 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.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us"

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming."

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it."

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange."

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember."

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad."

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I always want to write something better than the last book."

I always want to write something better than the last book.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone."

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense."

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma."

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why."

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen"

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail."

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist."

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.



Tracy Kidder Quotes: "Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon."

Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.