“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.”
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Timothy Egan
“I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)” ― Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
“Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.” ― Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
“He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“The Klan prided itself on how quickly it could spread a lie: from a kitchen table to the whole state in six hours or less.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.” ― Timothy Egan
“Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their enemies in Congress would be second-guessing.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“Men talk of the Negro problem,” said Frederick Douglass in one of his last public speeches, in 1893. “There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“the Forest Service has punched 343,000 miles of logging roads into the vast stands of public trees—more than seven times the 44,000 miles of road built by the national highway system.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“They didn’t hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared—more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.” ― Timothy Egan, Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
“The name Oklahoma is a combination of two Choctaw words— okla, which means "people,” ― Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
“I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)” ― Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
“Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.” ― Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
“He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“The Klan prided itself on how quickly it could spread a lie: from a kitchen table to the whole state in six hours or less.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.” ― Timothy Egan
“Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their enemies in Congress would be second-guessing.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“Men talk of the Negro problem,” said Frederick Douglass in one of his last public speeches, in 1893. “There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ― Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
“the Forest Service has punched 343,000 miles of logging roads into the vast stands of public trees—more than seven times the 44,000 miles of road built by the national highway system.” ― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
“They didn’t hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.” ― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
“by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared—more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.” ― Timothy Egan, Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
“The name Oklahoma is a combination of two Choctaw words— okla, which means "people,” ― Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
