I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it … - Rick Bragg

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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. " And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Rick Bragg

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

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This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years. . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

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