Quotes by Charles Kuralt

Charles Kuralt

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.

Country

Moon

People

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They’d measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Expression

Old Habits

Together

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Believe

Reading

Writing

I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Falling In Love

Trying

Writing

I didn’t have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

Ambition

Newspapers

Opportunity

I didn’t know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Desire

My Own

Narcissism

I didn’t like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Bigs

Competitiveness

Journalism

I don’t know what makes a good feature story. I’ve always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

Impact

People

Stories

I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

Pressure

Reputation

Thinking

I don’t think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn’t spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Jobs

Thinking

Years

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Achievement

Air

Ambition

Ambitious

Art

Asks

Baseball

Believe

Bigs

Book

Boys

Cities

Competitiveness

Conscience

Country

Credit

Dating

Desire

Dog

Earthquakes

Enthusiasm

Everyday

Expression

Falling In Love

Father

Fields

Firefighter

Fortune

Fun

Girl

Girlfriend

Gone

Greed

Growing Up

Happiness

Hate

Heard

Hero

Home

Illinois

Impact

Important

Insomnia

Jobs

Journalism

Jugs

Kids

Kind

Kindness

Liberal Media

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Quotes by Charles Kuralt

Charles Kuralt

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They’d measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

I didn’t have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

I didn’t know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

I didn’t like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I don’t know what makes a good feature story. I’ve always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I don’t think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn’t spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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