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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.

Erskine Caldwell

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.

Erskine Caldwell

Here is hard-core unemployment, widespread and chronic; here is a region of shacks and hovels for housing; here are cliffs and ravines without standing room for a cow or chickens. In this region of steep mountains, a person is exceptionally fortunate if he is able to hack out two or three ten-foot rows of land for potatoes or beans.

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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.

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.

Erskine Caldwell

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell

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Born: December 17, 1903

Died: April 11, 1987 (aged 83)

Bio: Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author.

Known for:

Tobacco Road (1932)
God's Little Acre (1933)
You Have Seen Their Faces (1937)
Trouble in July (1940)
In search of Bisco (1965)

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