Erskine Caldwell quotes
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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 CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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 CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”
-- Erskine CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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 CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.”
-- Erskine CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.182, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.”
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“To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.”
-- Erskine CaldwellSource : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press
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