Erskine Caldwell Quotes
- 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,…
- 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…
- I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
- 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…
- I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
- Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
- To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.