72 Quotes by Rick Bragg

Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South.

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

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.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.

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