Charles Kuralt

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. ”

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. ”

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ”

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. ”

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. ”

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. ”

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. ”

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. ”

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. ”

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. ”