Robert Caro
Robert Caro
Robert Allan Carois an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 October 1935
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
believe writing
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,
believe writing trying
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.
writing people appreciate
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.
zero book writing
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
writing long afternoon
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.
writing bed wells
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
writing tired trying
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.
good
What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
power taught
You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.
days exception supposed work
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
ballet favorite four seen time
My favorite ballet is Jewels. I don't think I've seen that more than four times. And each time you see it, you see something new in it.
power
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
beauty life
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
I finish what I have to do in the office.