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
thinking people ignorant
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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.
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.
love-you thinking worry
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.