Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidderis an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth12 November 1945
CountryUnited States of America
giving needs haitian
God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us
grateful writing grace
I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.
writing thinking people
People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
clubs obsessive-compulsive strange
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
airplane people alive
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
goal imitation emphasis
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
order goes-on strange
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
ideas two roots
And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.
writing enough interest
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
struggle people care
My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
boston russia sick
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
vietnam combat novel
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
hard-work writing mind
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.
childhood house happy-childhood
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.