I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
From Charles Kuralt
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.
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 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.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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.
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
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