Robert Caro Quotes

• The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Important, Minority

• I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Made, Become

• As you get older, you sometimes feel that it’s harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Come, Sometimes

• At the ballet, you really feel like you’re in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Outside, Higher

• Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don’t want to unravel that mystery.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mystery, Ballet, Sort

• Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Live, Lost

• I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Political

• Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It’s really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Everything

• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Through

• I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there’s something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that’s timeless.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Sometimes

• I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Enjoy, Wanted

• I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don’t know why.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old, Until

• I like new ballets because they’re totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it’s pretty great to have a new experience.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Come, Pretty

• I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, President, Credit

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Writing, Used

• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political, Trying

• If it’s coming near the end of a chapter and I’m really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I’m excited to get to work.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in End, Getting, Coming

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Happy, Bad

• If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Human, Need

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Long, Same

Robert Caro (51)

Birth:	30th October, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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