The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
From Tracy Kidder
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
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.
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
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.
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
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