Rick Bragg Quotes

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.

I spend about a year between novels.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

People do write books.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.