I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
