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Top 15 Erskine Caldwell Quotes (2025 Update)

Erskine Caldwell Quote: “I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”

1. “I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don’t want to be influenced by anybody.”

2. “Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don’t want to be influenced by anybody.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It’s either good writing, whatever the subject, or it’s not creative.”

3. “To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It’s either good writing, whatever the subject, or it’s not creative.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “I’m not interested in plots. I’m interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.”

4. “I’m not interested in plots. I’m interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain’t got nothing. That’s how it looks to me. Don’t seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain’t got no time to fool with us poor folks.”

5. “Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain’t got nothing. That’s how it looks to me. Don’t seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain’t got no time to fool with us poor folks.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “Good preachers don’t preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn’t do a preacher no good to preach for God. He’s got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That’s what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things.”

7. “Good preachers don’t preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn’t do a preacher no good to preach for God. He’s got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That’s what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”

8. “He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in full view taking turnips out of the sack, she could not bear the sight of seeing food no one would let her have.”

9. “She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in full view taking turnips out of the sack, she could not bear the sight of seeing food no one would let her have.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “Co-operative and corporate farming would have saved them all.”

10. “Co-operative and corporate farming would have saved them all.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “The spring-time ain’t going to let you fool it by hiding away inside a durn cotton mill. It knows you got to stay on the land to feel good. That’s because humans made the mills. God made the land, but you don’t see Him building durn cotton mills. That’s how I know better than to go up there like the rest of them. I stay where God made a place for me.”

11. “The spring-time ain’t going to let you fool it by hiding away inside a durn cotton mill. It knows you got to stay on the land to feel good. That’s because humans made the mills. God made the land, but you don’t see Him building durn cotton mills. That’s how I know better than to go up there like the rest of them. I stay where God made a place for me.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn’t do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.”

12. “Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn’t do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “He sometimes said it was partly his own fault, but he believed steadfastly that his position had been brought about by other people. He.”

14. “He sometimes said it was partly his own fault, but he believed steadfastly that his position had been brought about by other people. He.”

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Erskine Caldwell Quote: “All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch – that ain’t living. It’s the things you can feel inside of you – that’s what living is made for.”

15. “All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch – that ain’t living. It’s the things you can feel inside of you – that’s what living is made for.”

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