Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg
Rick Braggis an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at The New York Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth26 July 1959
CountryUnited States of America
send time unusual
It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
thinking people ignorant
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
clerks assistants news
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
writing phones editors
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.
paper journalism backgrounds
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.
beautiful pain nuts
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.
book writing thinking
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
wall drug porcelain
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall...
home remember moments
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
real writing thinking
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.
smart home thinking
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.
men people hatred
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.
unique games earthquakes
When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.