(69 quotes found)
“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
Tracy Kidder
“If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.”
“People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.”
“We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.”
“Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.”
“Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.”
“I like particular people, particular places.”
“I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.”
“The world doesn't make much sense to me generally. I don't feel like I'm good at that.”
“Memory is so much a part of imagination, so plastic, so wonderfully plastic.”
