Quotes by Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg

And Sandy Martindale … dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

Drug

Porcelain

Wall

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

Book

Dream

Years

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.

Love You

People

Thinking

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

Inspirational

Life

Shells

I began reading Harper Lee’s novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother’s house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

Dream

Morning

Mother

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

Believe

Life And Death

Writing

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

Book

Thinking

Writing

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for ‘working magic.

Airports

Phones

Writing

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.

Helping

People

Way

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.

Common

Poor

Success

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Airports

Assistants

Baby

Backgrounds

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Boys

Clerks

Common

Dragons

Dream

Drug

Games

Garden

Grandma

Hard Work

Hate

Hatred

Helping

Hoe

Home

Ice Cream

Ignorant

Inspirational

Journalism

Kind

Life

Life And Death

Light

Love You

Machines

Men

Moments

Morning

Mother

News

Nuts

Pages

Pain

Paper

Passion

People

Phones

Poor

Porcelain

Real

Remember

Shells

Smart

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Quotes by Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg

And Sandy Martindale … dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

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.

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

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

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

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for ‘working magic.

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.

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.

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