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You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.
Robert Caro
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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
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New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives
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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
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I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
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I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless
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I trained myself to be organized.
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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
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Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
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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 do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
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My interest is in power. How power works.
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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
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You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.
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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 of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.
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There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
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Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
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