Erskine Caldwell Quotes

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

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• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

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• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

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• I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

  

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• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

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• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

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• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

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• Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

  

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• I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

  

  Irwin Rose
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• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

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• Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

  

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• Our life is full of empty space.

  

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• I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.

  

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• I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!

  

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• Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

  

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• And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?

  

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• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  

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• We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

  

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• I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.

  

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• When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

  

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• One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

  

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• To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

  

  Erskine Caldwell
  • Writing
  • Creative