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Category: Tracy Kidder

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.

Writing, Done, Right

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I’ve ever met… He’s the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Leader, Book, World

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

inspirational-attitude

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

writing, writing-process

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.

memoir, writing, writing-process

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

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don’t exist.

history, memory

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

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don’t exist.

history, memory