Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It … - Erskine Caldwell

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Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Erskine Caldwell

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 incident can make a story.

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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 revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

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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, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

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I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

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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.

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