Robert Caro Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, People, Appreciate

• I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Tired, Trying

  "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, www.robertcaro.com. 1999.

• I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

  Robert Caro

  Believe, Writing, Trying

• I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

  Robert Caro

  Zero, Book, Writing

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

• Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

  Robert Caro

  Believe, Writing

  "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.

• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

• If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Bed, Wells

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