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I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad. — Tracy Kidder

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season. — Tracy Kidder

Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon. — Tracy Kidder

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. — Tracy Kidder

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. — Tracy Kidder

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. — Tracy Kidder

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work. — Tracy Kidder

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. — Tracy Kidder

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. — Tracy Kidder

I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity. — Tracy Kidder

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life. — Tracy Kidder

The only real nation is humanity — Tracy Kidder

The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers. — Tracy Kidder

As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break. — Tracy Kidder

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen. — Tracy Kidder

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make. — Tracy Kidder

Too much protocol. — Tracy Kidder

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. — Tracy Kidder

When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn't care. It was, all of a sudden, a job. — Tracy Kidder

I always want to write something better than the last book. — Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. — Tracy Kidder

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. — Tracy Kidder

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

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail. — Tracy Kidder

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. — Tracy Kidder

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all — Tracy Kidder

Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. — Tracy Kidder

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. — Tracy Kidder

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. — Tracy Kidder

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression. — Tracy Kidder

On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success. — Tracy Kidder

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place. — Tracy Kidder

god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb — Tracy Kidder

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. — Tracy Kidder

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. — Tracy Kidder

It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret. — Tracy Kidder

One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building — Tracy Kidder

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. — Tracy Kidder

You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming. — Tracy Kidder

He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again. — Tracy Kidder

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why. — Tracy Kidder

By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success. — Tracy Kidder

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. — Tracy Kidder