Rick Bragg Thinking Quotations

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

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

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

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.