Quote

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Charles Kuralt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Literature
Read
Everything
Discriminating
Reader
Along
Wasn
Came

More quotes by Charles Kuralt

Image
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
Charles Kuralt
Image
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
Charles Kuralt
Image
Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
Charles Kuralt
Image
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
Charles Kuralt
Image
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
Charles Kuralt
Image
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
Charles Kuralt
Image
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
Charles Kuralt
Image
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
Charles Kuralt
Image
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
Image
I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt
Image
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
Image
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
Image
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
Charles Kuralt
Image
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
Charles Kuralt
Image
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
Image
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
Charles Kuralt