It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don’t have time to conduct. It’s what we do. – Rick Bragg
I don’t think there’s a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. – Rick Bragg
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants. – Rick Bragg
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for ‘working magic.’ – Rick Bragg
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they’re not real writers. That’s ridiculous. – Rick Bragg
