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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."

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"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."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

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"It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people."

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"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."
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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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"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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