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. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
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. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
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. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
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. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. Charles Kuralt American Journalist More Charles Kuralt Quotes 0