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Tracy Kidder

"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."

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"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."

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Amber Hurdle

"The greatest treasures are books."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."

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Amber Hurdle

"The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams."

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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on."

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Amber Hurdle

"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."

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Amber Hurdle

"God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites."

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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."

Work

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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."

Happiness

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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."

Leadership

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

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Tracy Kidder
"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

Time

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

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

People

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

Writing

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

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"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."

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