Quote

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

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
Would
Features
People
Impact
Interested
Story
Makes
Stories
Amused
Good
Assumed
Always
Feature

More quotes by Charles Kuralt

Image
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
Charles Kuralt
Image
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
Charles Kuralt
Image
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
Charles Kuralt
Image
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
Charles Kuralt
Image
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
Image
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
Charles Kuralt
Image
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
Charles Kuralt
Image
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
Charles Kuralt
Image
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
Charles Kuralt
Image
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt