181 Quotes by Tracy Kidder

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

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.