Charles Kuralt Quotes

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

I love discovering tiny streets.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.

The back roads of America are so important.

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

That's my favourite stuff to write about: my journeys and the people I meet - especially the kids.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee.

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.