"Writing is revision. All prose responds to work."

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Source : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House

Tracy Kidder

#Writing Quotes #Revision Quotes #Prose Quotes

“I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.”
“A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.”
“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
“Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.”
“My breakfast is very important.”
“In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.”
“The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.”

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