Erskine Caldwell Quotes

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“I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I dont think theres going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.”
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Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.

— Erskine Caldwell

“He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”

— Erskine Caldwell

“You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you ...”

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“I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”

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I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

— Erskine Caldwell

“To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.”

— Erskine Caldwell

“Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.”

— Erskine Caldwell

“Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.”

— Erskine Caldwell

I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

— Erskine Caldwell

“I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.”

— Erskine Caldwell

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