Robert Caro Quotes

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

Happy, Bad, Writing

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

Good, Power, Human

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
Robert Caro

Fool, Yourself, Job

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
Robert Caro

Power, Long, Political

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
Robert Caro

Work, Made, Leader

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

Work, Long, Football

My predictions are notably inaccurate.
Robert Caro

Inaccurate, Notably

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
Robert Caro

Write, Nobody, Fast

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
Robert Caro

Work, Learning, Book

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
Robert Caro

Power, Democracy, Anyone

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
Robert Caro

Work, Political, Genius

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
Robert Caro

Beautiful, Sometimes, Around

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Robert Caro

Music, Sometimes, Dance

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
Robert Caro

Beauty, Same, Whole

The Senate is an unknowing world.
Robert Caro

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.
Robert Caro

Trust, Government, Feeling

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
Robert Caro

Feeling, Real, Getting

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
Robert Caro

Good, Last, Books

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
Robert Caro

Power, Enough, Wanted

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
Robert Caro

Work, Fool, Yourself

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
Robert Caro

Power, Political, Guy

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
Robert Caro

Down, Through, Another

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
Robert Caro

Legal, Long, Three

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.
Robert Caro

Power, Democracy, Taught

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 30, 1935

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