Erskine Caldwell famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Writing #Simple #Thinking
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

#Acceptance #Thinking #Rights
I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
-- 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

#Art #Southern #Listening
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
-- Erskine Caldwell

#People #Plot #Not Interested
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

#Trying #Matter #Want
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

#Writing #Creative #Subjects

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Erskine Caldwell famous quotes

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